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French Literature - Search View - MSN Encarta (10233 words) |
 | French literature is considered one of the richest and most varied national literatures, noted especially for its examination of human society and the individual’s place within society. |
| Much of French medieval literature is sacred in the sense that it deals with the lives of saints and the church lore of miracles and mysteries. |
| Courtly literature examined the social and personal consequences of a system that fostered arranged marriages and advocated the submission of the individual to higher forces and beings. |
| American literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (2670 words) |
| Some of these early works reached the level of literature, as in the robust and perhaps truthful account of his adventures by Captain John Smith and the sober, tendentious journalistic histories of John Winthrop and William Bradford in New England. |
| From the beginning, however, the literature of New England was also directed to the edification and instruction of the colonists themselves, intended to direct them in the ways of the godly. |
| The connection of American literature with writing in England and Europe was again stressed by William Dean Howells, who was not only an able novelist but an instructor in literary realism to other American writers. |
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