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Fragments of 12th-century glossed Bible reinforcing book spine (outer cover removed), Yale Law School library. Fragmentology is the study of surviving fragments of manuscripts (mainly manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the case of European manuscript cultures).
Byzantine Egyptian papyrus fragment. A literary fragment is a piece of text that may be part of a larger work, or that employs a 'fragmentary' form characterised by physical features such as short paragraphs or sentences separated by white space, and thematic features such as discontinuity, ambivalence, ambiguity, or lack of a traditional narrative structure.
A fragmentary novel is a novel made of fragments, vignettes, segments, documents or chapters that can be read in isolation and/or as part of the greater whole of the book. . These novels typically lack a traditional plot or set of characters and often are the product of a cultural cr
The most important source on the Sasanian Avesta is the Denkard, a 9th-10th century compendium of Zoroastrianism. [5] The 8th and 9th book of the Denkard give an overview of the Avesta as it was available at the time.
Modernist literature scholar David Thorburn saw connections between literary style and impressionist painters such as Claude Monet. Modernist writers, like Monet's paintings of water lilies , suggested an awareness of art as art, rejected realistic interpretations of the world and dramatized "a drive towards the abstract".
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho is a book by the Canadian classicist and poet Anne Carson, first published in 2002. It contains a translation of the surviving works of the archaic Greek poet Sappho , with the Greek text on facing pages, based on Eva-Maria Voigt 's 1971 critical edition .
In "The Fragments of a Journey: The Drama in T. S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes," David Galef writes, "Through the play's Greek forms, religious symbolism, and jazz syncopation, critics have perceived Christian themes but more as motifs than as underlying structure: the horror of spiritual awareness amidst modern ignorance, and the trepidation of ...
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