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• RPO (Representative Poetry Online)
  ...n Lancashire], who is a member of the Department of English, University of Toronto. He edits the [[poems]] in [[affection]] for and [[gratitude]] to their aut
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• UTEL (Univ. of Toronto English Library)
  ==[https://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/index.html UTEL (Univ. of Toronto English Library)]== ...echnology Courseware Development Fund and with support from the Department of English, chaired by Prof. T. H. Adamowski. The present Chair is Professor B
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• Scriptorium
  ...s no further need for a room to be set aside for the purpose. By the start of the 13th century secular copy-shops developed; professional scribes may hav The monastery built in the second quarter of the 6th century by [[Cassiodorus]] at Vivarium in southern Italy, contained
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• Commentary
  ...ich may be foreign to the reader. Such a commentary usually takes the form of footnotes, endnotes, or separate text cross-referenced by line, paragraph o ...textual [[criticism]], [[syntax]] and [[semantics]], and the [[analysis]] of [[rhetoric]], literary [[tropes]], and [[style]]. The aim is to remove, les
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• Richard Maurice Bucke
  ...best known work – ''Cosmic Consciousness'', a classic in the modern study of [[mysticism|mystical]] [[experience]]. ...st to California, working manually at odd jobs along the way. He was part of a traveling party who had to fight for their lives under attack from the [[
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• Prana
  It is one of the five organs of vitality or sensation, viz. ''prana'' "breath", ''vac'' "speech", ''caksus' ...lled nadis. The ''Pranamaya-kosha'' is one of the five Koshas or "sheaths" of the [[Atman]]
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• August Jaccaci
  one of the world's foremost social inventors. Gus is co-author of the
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• Apathy
  ...ion]] of the passions ([[negative]] feelings) by the [[Ascent|ascendency]] of [[reason]]".[3] *1 : lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness
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• Oral Tradition
  ...material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of [[folklore]] (a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists). As an ...gies of [[literacy]] (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.
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• Monk
  ...th any number of like-minded people, whilst always maintaining some degree of [[physical]] separation from those not [[sharing]] the same [[purpose]]. Th Although the term monachos (“monk”) is of Christian origin, in the English language it tends to be used analogously o
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• Metaphor
  [[Image:The-metaphor-of-the-palm-treelgr.jpg|right|frame|<center>[https://www.moleiro.com/miniatura ...cit attributes from the second subject are used to enhance the description of the first. This device is known for usage in [[literature]], especially in
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• Books
  ...one or multiple [[author]]s, either composing a [[narrative]], collection of [[songs]], [[poems]], or [[essay]](s) addressing any particular subject tha ...gly linked to political and economical [[contingencies]] and the [[history of ideas]] and religions.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_book]
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• Orality
  ...relates to the goal of eradicating [[poverty]], as well as to the process of [[globalization]]. ==The impact of literacy on culture==
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• Jurors
  ...a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a pe ...w]]. A trial without a jury (in which both questions of fact and questions of law are decided by a judge) is known as a bench trial.
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• Imagination
  ...torytelling ([[narrative]]),(see [[Northrup Frye]]) in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to 'evoke worlds'. ...imagination. The way we understand things... the way that we 'make sense' of things is through our imagination. The ability to problem-solve... to see t
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• Art History
  ...3.0, princeton.edu Moreover, ''art history'' generally is the [[research]] of [[artist]]s and their cultural and social contributions.[https://www.mobile ...of art theory frequently have been the pivots upon which the understanding of art history has turned.
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• Paradigm
  ...uistics]], [[Ferdinand de Saussure]] used ''paradigm'' to refer to a class of elements with similarities. ...hem are formulated; ''broadly '': a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind.[https://www.m-w.com/dictionary/paradigm paradigm]
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• Gossip
  ...roven) [[fact]]s and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the [[information]] transmitted. The term In the last decade, gossip has been researched in terms of its [[evolution]]ary [[psychology]] origins.[1] This has found gossip as an
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• Academic
  ...]], had formerly been an [[olive]] grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". ...us scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning. The English adopted the form '''academy''' while the Frenc
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• Dance
  ...d to music [https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9110116/] used as a form of [[Emotional expression|expression]], [[social]] [[social interaction|intera ...communication#Dance language|bee dance]], [[Fixed action pattern|patterns of behaviour]] such as a mating dance), [[Motion (physics)|motion]] in inanima
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