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  • 41Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) — Infobox Symphony symphonynumber=5 name=A Soviet Artist s Response to Justified Criticism opusnumber=47 composer=Dmitri Shostakovich yearcomposed=1937 playingtime=49:40 movements=4 key=D minor Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 5 in D… …

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  • 42Terry Southern — (May 1, 1924 ndash; October 29, 1995) was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer noted for his distinctive satirical style. He was part of the Paris postwar literary movement in… …

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  • 43Homer Davenport — Infobox Person name = Homer Davenport image size = 200px caption = Homer C. Davenport 1898 birth date = birth date|1867|03|08|mf=y birth place = Waldo Hills, Oregon, U.S. death date = death date and age|1912|05|02|1867|03|08|mf=y death place =… …

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  • 44Anatomy of Criticism — Herman Northrop Frye s Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature. Frye… …

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  • 45Persian Letters — ( Lettres persanes ) is a satirical work, by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who are traveling through France.Plot summaryIn 1711 Usbek leaves his seraglio in Isfahan… …

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  • 46Tomás Gutiérrez Alea — (December 11 1928 ndash; April 16 1996) was an influential Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, known for his sharp insight into post Revolutionary Cuba, and a delicate balance between… …

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  • 47Extra Large Medium — Эпизод «Гриффинов» «Extra Large Medium» Промо картинка …

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  • 48Rutebeuf — ▪ French poet also spelled  Rutebuef , or  Rustebeuf  flourished 1245–85       French poet and jongleur whose pungent commentaries on the orders of society are considered the first expression of popular opinion in French literature.       The… …

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  • 49theatre, Western — ▪ art Introduction       history of the Western theatre from its origins in pre Classical antiquity to the present.       For a discussion of drama as a literary form, see dramatic literature and the articles on individual national literatures.… …

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  • 50Charles-Pierre Colardeau — (12 October 1732, Janville 7 April 1776, Paris) was a French poet. His most notable works are an imitation of Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope and a translation of the first two sections of Night Thoughts by Edward Young. They witness to the… …

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