The Romani (also spelled Romany , ), colloquially known as Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants living mostly in Europe, and diaspora populations in the Americas. The Romani as a people originate from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab regions of modern-day India.Genetic findings appear to confirm that the Romani "came from a single group that left northwestern India" in about 512 CE. Genetic research published in the European Journal of Human Genetics "revealed that over 70% of males belong to a single lineage that appears...
In Maya Angelou's poem "The Mothering Blackness", there are a bunch of different colors mentioned. For instance, the first verse goes like this:
She came home running
back to the mothering blackness
deep in the smothering blackness
white tears icicle gold plains of her face
There are ment...0
I am trying to look for a dictionary for African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) but I haven't found one, not even one. Google Books shows some introductory and general reference materials. I see one book titled A Dictionary of Varieties of English, and another one Dictionary of American Regio...
I remember three things about a book I read as a young child.
The cover was blue-green, and had either stars, fireflies, or some other kind of orbs of light on it. I don't remember the title, and all of these memories are fuzzy.
There was a small character, maybe the main character's best frien...0
In "The Fisher of Men" in Dr. Thorndyke's Case-Book by R. Austin Freeman, Dr. Gervis was digging the earth with his friend, while they saw a stranger man coming along the path, then that man was for the moment hidden from them by a bend of the path and a near clump of bushes.
At this moment the ...
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Literature broadly refers to any collection of written or oral work, but it more commonly and narrowly refers to writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry, in contrast to academic writing and newspapers. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to now include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as autobiography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay, as well as in the disciplines of history and philosophy.Its Latin root litera...
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There's been plenty of meta posts about what should be considered on-topic here, and some discussion on whether music should be literature or not. We also have a question on the ways academics has defined literature.
I think rather than squabbling about why some medium or work is or isn't conside...
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The Nile mosaic of Palestrina is a mosaic originally constructed in the ancient Roman age, in Palestrina in Italia. It depicts an imaginary scene from Egypt, showing various fantastical animals, such as a snake with multiple heads, an animal with an ungulate's body but a crocodile's head, a hipp...
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The Literature Stack Exchange is actually two different sites rolled into one. We are a:
Site about books (e.g. the questions about book-care, basic plot points, and story-identification).
Site about literary theory and criticism (e.g. our close reading questions, our questions about literary t...
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Recently two questions about dictionaries have been posted here:
Is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) a descriptive dictionary?
Has there ever been an African-American Vernacular English dictionary?
As far as I can remember, this is the first time questions about dictionaries have been posted...
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