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Passage: “The roots of all our modern academic fields can be found within the pages of literature.” Literature in all its forms can be seen as written records, whether the literature itself be factual or fictional, it is still quite possible to decipher facts through things like characters’ actions and words or the authors’ style of writing and the intent behind the words. The plot is for more than just entertainment purposes; within it lies information about economics, psychology, science, religions, politics, cultures, and social depth. Studying and analyzing literature becomes very important in terms of learning about our history. Through the study of past literature we are able to learn about how society has evolved and about the societal norms during each of the different periods all throughout history. This can even help us to understand references made in more modern literature because authors often make references to Greek mythology and other old religious texts or historical moments. Not only is there literature written on each of the aforementioned topics themselves, and how they have evolved throughout history (like a book about the history of economics or a book about evolution and science, for example) but we can also learn about these things in fictional works. Authors often include historical moments in their works, like when Lord Byron talks about the Spanish and the French in ‘‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto I’’ and expresses his opinions through his character Childe Harold. Through literature we are able to continuously uncover new information about history. It is easy to see how all academic fields have roots in literature. Information became easier to pass down from generation to generation once we began to write it down. Eventually everything was written down, from things like home remedies and cures for illness, or how to build shelter to traditions and religious practices. From there people were able to study literature, improve on ideas, further our knowledge, and academic fields such as the medical field or trades could be started. In much the same way as the literature that we study today continue to be updated as we continue to evolve and learn more and more.

Question: Literature, regardless of how the definition is applied, can be interpreted as what?

Question: We can learn what by carefully examining our literature?

Question: Who wrote "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto I"?

Question: Passing information down through generations was made easier when our society did what?

Question: Authors of literature frequently reference what antecedents?
Passage: As a more urban culture developed, academies provided a means of transmission for speculative and philosophical literature in early civilizations, resulting in the prevalence of literature in Ancient China, Ancient India, Persia and Ancient Greece and Rome. Many works of earlier periods, even in narrative form, had a covert moral or didactic purpose, such as the Sanskrit Panchatantra or the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Drama and satire also developed as urban culture provided a larger public audience, and later readership, for literary production. Lyric poetry (as opposed to epic poetry) was often the speciality of courts and aristocratic circles, particularly in East Asia where songs were collected by the Chinese aristocracy as poems, the most notable being the Shijing or Book of Songs. Over a long period, the poetry of popular pre-literate balladry and song interpenetrated and eventually influenced poetry in the literary medium.

Question: What are some classical societies whose literature is still studied today?

Question: Besides entertainment or informational value, classic literature also possessed what quality?

Question: What societal evolution helped to develop drama and satire by providing a ready audience?

Question: From what settings did lyric poetry derive?

Question: What is an example of a collection of classic Chinese lyric poetry?
Passage: In ancient China, early literature was primarily focused on philosophy, historiography, military science, agriculture, and poetry. China, the origin of modern paper making and woodblock printing, produced one of the world's first print cultures. Much of Chinese literature originates with the Hundred Schools of Thought period that occurred during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (769-269 BCE). The most important of these include the Classics of Confucianism, of Daoism, of Mohism, of Legalism, as well as works of military science (e.g. Sun Tzu's The Art of War) and Chinese history (e.g. Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian). Ancient Chinese literature had a heavy emphasis on historiography, with often very detailed court records. An exemplary piece of narrative history of ancient China was the Zuo Zhuan, which was compiled no later than 389 BCE, and attributed to the blind 5th century BCE historian Zuo Qiuming.

Question: Subjects featured in Ancient Chinese literature include what?

Question: What two inventions helped make Chinese literature especially important and portable?

Question: What historic period was the foundry for classic Chinese literature in the ancient world?

Question: What classic work of war science originated during this period?

Question: Who wrote The Art Of War?
Passage: In ancient India, literature originated from stories that were originally orally transmitted. Early genres included drama, fables, sutras and epic poetry. Sanskrit literature begins with the Vedas, dating back to 1500–1000 BCE, and continues with the Sanskrit Epics of Iron Age India. The Vedas are among the oldest sacred texts. The Samhitas (vedic collections) date to roughly 1500–1000 BCE, and the "circum-Vedic" texts, as well as the redaction of the Samhitas, date to c. 1000-500 BCE, resulting in a Vedic period, spanning the mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, or the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. The period between approximately the 6th to 1st centuries BC saw the composition and redaction of the two most influential Indian epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, with subsequent redaction progressing down to the 4th century AD.

Question: What were some different genres that emerged from ancient India's oral literary traditions?

Question: An important language for ancient Indian literature is what?

Question: What ancient religious scriptures were among the first examples of Indian literature?

Question: The Vedic Period refers to what expanse of time?

Question: The Vedic Period began in the Late Bronze Age and extended until when?
Passage: In ancient Greece, the epics of Homer, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Hesiod, who wrote Works and Days and Theogony, are some of the earliest, and most influential, of Ancient Greek literature. Classical Greek genres included philosophy, poetry, historiography, comedies and dramas. Plato and Aristotle authored philosophical texts that are the foundation of Western philosophy, Sappho and Pindar were influential lyric poets, and Herodotus and Thucydides were early Greek historians. Although drama was popular in Ancient Greece, of the hundreds of tragedies written and performed during the classical age, only a limited number of plays by three authors still exist: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The plays of Aristophanes provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, the earliest form of Greek Comedy, and are in fact used to define the genre.

Question: What two epic narratives were written by Homer?

Question: Who wrote Works and Days and Theogony?

Question: Plato and Aristotle wrote what type of literature?

Question: Who were two important Classic Greek lyric poets?

Question: The two great ancient Greek historians were?
Passage: Roman histories and biographies anticipated the extensive mediaeval literature of lives of saints and miraculous chronicles, but the most characteristic form of the Middle Ages was the romance, an adventurous and sometimes magical narrative with strong popular appeal. Controversial, religious, political and instructional literature proliferated during the Renaissance as a result of the invention of printing, while the mediaeval romance developed into a more character-based and psychological form of narrative, the novel, of which early and important examples are the Chinese Monkey and the German Faust books.

Question: Much medieval literature was influenced by the works of what classic culture?

Question: What form of literature enjoyed the most widespread popularity during the Middle Ages?

Question: What element is characteristic of a medieval romance?

Question: What helped cause the widespread appearance of multiple forms of literature in the Renaissance?

Question: What is an early example of the novel form of literature from Europe?
Passage: In the Age of Reason philosophical tracts and speculations on history and human nature integrated literature with social and political developments. The inevitable reaction was the explosion of Romanticism in the later 18th century which reclaimed the imaginative and fantastical bias of old romances and folk-literature and asserted the primacy of individual experience and emotion. But as the 19th-century went on, European fiction evolved towards realism and naturalism, the meticulous documentation of real life and social trends. Much of the output of naturalism was implicitly polemical, and influenced social and political change, but 20th century fiction and drama moved back towards the subjective, emphasising unconscious motivations and social and environmental pressures on the individual. Writers such as Proust, Eliot, Joyce, Kafka and Pirandello exemplify the trend of documenting internal rather than external realities.

Question: What literary movement in the 1700s recalled the fantastical literature of medieval times?

Question: What elements in 19th century European literature were a reaction to the romanticism movement?

Question: What are two elements prevalent among characters at the center of romanticism works?

Question: How did naturalism effect the greater world?

Question: 20th century literature reacted to the objectivity of naturalism in the 19th century to what?
Passage: Genre fiction also showed it could question reality in its 20th century forms, in spite of its fixed formulas, through the enquiries of the skeptical detective and the alternative realities of science fiction. The separation of "mainstream" and "genre" forms (including journalism) continued to blur during the period up to our own times. William Burroughs, in his early works, and Hunter S. Thompson expanded documentary reporting into strong subjective statements after the second World War, and post-modern critics have disparaged the idea of objective realism in general.

Question: What sub-group of literature emerged in the 20th century?

Question: Alternative reality genre fiction is also known as what?

Question: Who were two 20th century writers who blurred the lines between journalism and literature?

Question: By what means did these two writers create and emergent convergence of literature and journalism?

Question: Critics based in what movement find fault in objective realism?
Passage: As advances and specialization have made new scientific research inaccessible to most audiences, the "literary" nature of science writing has become less pronounced over the last two centuries. Now, science appears mostly in journals. Scientific works of Aristotle, Copernicus, and Newton still exhibit great value, but since the science in them has largely become outdated, they no longer serve for scientific instruction. Yet, they remain too technical to sit well in most programmes of literary study. Outside of "history of science" programmes, students rarely read such works.

Question: What two elements have reduced the literary nature of scientific journals?

Question: The segregation of science writing means that articles in those subjects primarily appear where?

Question: The work of what classical scientists is caught between being outdated and of literary importance?

Question: In what coursework is one still likely to encounter the works of these classic scientists?
Passage: Philosophy has become an increasingly academic discipline. More of its practitioners lament this situation than occurs with the sciences; nonetheless most new philosophical work appears in academic journals. Major philosophers through history—Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Augustine, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche—have become as canonical as any writers. Some recent philosophy works are argued to merit the title "literature", but much of it does not, and some areas, such as logic, have become extremely technical to a degree similar to that of mathematics.

Question: What classic area of study is now mostly reserved for academic consideration?

Question: Most serious studies in philosophy are segregated to what publications?

Question: Who are some of the most important philosophers in history?

Question: What aspect of modern academic philosophy is less literary than technical in nature?

Question: Serious studies in logic tend to resemble what discipline, moreso than literature?
Passage: Literature allows readers to access intimate emotional aspects of a person’s character that would not be obvious otherwise. It benefits the psychological development and understanding of the reader. For example, it allows a person to access emotional states from which the person has distanced himself or herself. An entry written by D. Mitchell featured in ‘‘The English Journal’’ explains how the author utilized young adult literature in order to re-experience the emotional psychology she experienced as a child which she describes as a state of “wonder”.

Question: Literature gives the reader insights into what areas of its characters?

Question: How does literary fiction aid the person who reads it?

Question: What writer's entry in "The English Journal" was concerned with young adult fiction?

Question: Why did this author embrace young adult literature as a grownup?

Question: How did the writer refer to this psychological state experienced as a youth?
Passage: Hogan also explains that the temporal and emotional amount which a person devotes to understanding a character’s situation in literature allows literature to be considered “ecological[ly] valid in the study of emotion”. This can be understood in the sense that literature unites a large community by provoking universal emotions. It also allows readers to access cultural aspects that they are not exposed to thus provoking new emotional experiences. Authors choose literary device according to what psychological emotion he or she is attempting to describe, thus certain literary devices are more emotionally effective than others.

Question: How does literature unite members of a society?

Question: How does literature expand the horizons of its readers?

Question: What determines what literary structure a literary author uses for expression of ideas?

Question: What are the levers an author uses in literature to describe a psychological emotion?
Passage: Maslow’s ‘‘Third Force Psychology Theory’’ even allows literary analysts to critically understand how characters reflect the culture and the history in which they are contextualized. It also allows analysts to understand the author’s intended message and to understand the author’s psychology. The theory suggests that human beings possess a nature within them that demonstrates their true “self” and it suggests that the fulfillment of this nature is the reason for living. It also suggests that neurological development hinders actualizing the nature because a person becomes estranged from his or her true self. Therefore, literary devices reflect a characters’s and an author’s natural self. In his ‘‘Third Force Psychology and the Study of Literature’’, Paris argues “D.H Lawrence’s “pristine unconscious” is a metaphor for the real self”. Thus Literature is a reputable tool that allows readers to develop and apply critical reasoning to the nature of emotions.

Question: Who conceived of "The Third Force Psychology Theory?"

Question: The theory states that at the center of humans beings is what?

Question: The theory suggests that the quest for this nature represents what?

Question: What causes a person to become separated from their "true self"?

Question: What author espoused the theory of the "pristine unconscious?"
Passage: A significant portion of historical writing ranks as literature, particularly the genre known as creative nonfiction, as can a great deal of journalism, such as literary journalism. However, these areas have become extremely large, and often have a primarily utilitarian purpose: to record data or convey immediate information. As a result, the writing in these fields often lacks a literary quality, although it often(and in its better moments)has that quality. Major "literary" historians include Herodotus, Thucydides and Procopius, all of whom count as canonical literary figures.

Question: What is literary historical writing sometimes called?

Question: Reporting that attempts a creative or literary bent is sometimes called what?

Question: What is the main function of journalism or historical documentation?

Question: Who are some classic historians regarded as literary historians?
Passage: Law offers more ambiguity. Some writings of Plato and Aristotle, the law tables of Hammurabi of Babylon, or even the early parts of the Bible could be seen as legal literature. Roman civil law as codified in the Corpus Juris Civilis during the reign of Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire has a reputation as significant literature. The founding documents of many countries, including Constitutions and Law Codes, can count as literature; however, most legal writings rarely exhibit much literary merit, as they tend to be rather Written by Samuel Dean.

Question: What Babylonian ruler created formal law tables?

Question: What religious scripture can be fit into a large, loose definition of legal literature?

Question: Roman civil law was written and codified into a unified system by what group?

Question: Under what Emperor did this group sit?

Question: What empire did Justinian preside over?
Passage: A literary technique or literary device can be used by authors in order to enhance the written framework of a piece of literature, and produce specific effects. Literary techniques encompass a wide range of approaches to crafting a work: whether a work is narrated in first-person or from another perspective, whether to use a traditional linear narrative or a nonlinear narrative, or the choice of literary genre, are all examples of literary technique. They may indicate to a reader that there is a familiar structure and presentation to a work, such as a conventional murder-mystery novel; or, the author may choose to experiment with their technique to surprise the reader.

Question: Literary devices are employed for what reason?

Question: What is one form of narration in literature?

Question: What are two types of narrative structure in literature?

Question: Why would an author utilize experimental narratives in literature?

Question: In what type of writing would a more familiar, standard literary narrative structure be employed?
Passage: Ibn Sina created an extensive corpus of works during what is commonly known as the Islamic Golden Age, in which the translations of Greco-Roman, Persian, and Indian texts were studied extensively. Greco-Roman (Mid- and Neo-Platonic, and Aristotelian) texts translated by the Kindi school were commented, redacted and developed substantially by Islamic intellectuals, who also built upon Persian and Indian mathematical systems, astronomy, algebra, trigonometry and medicine. The Samanid dynasty in the eastern part of Persia, Greater Khorasan and Central Asia as well as the Buyid dynasty in the western part of Persia and Iraq provided a thriving atmosphere for scholarly and cultural development. Under the Samanids, Bukhara rivaled Baghdad as a cultural capital of the Islamic world.

Question: What was the term used to describe the age in which Ibn Sina created a big body of work?

Question: What is one example of the type of translations done in the Islamic Golden Age?

Question: What school translated Greco-Roman texts during the Islamic Golden Age?

Question: What was one dynasty that provided a great atmosphere for cultural development?

Question: What city was known as a cultural capital of the Islamic world?
Passage: The study of the Quran and the Hadith thrived in such a scholarly atmosphere. Philosophy, Fiqh and theology (kalaam) were further developed, most noticeably by Avicenna and his opponents. Al-Razi and Al-Farabi had provided methodology and knowledge in medicine and philosophy. Avicenna had access to the great libraries of Balkh, Khwarezm, Gorgan, Rey, Isfahan and Hamadan. Various texts (such as the 'Ahd with Bahmanyar) show that he debated philosophical points with the greatest scholars of the time. Aruzi Samarqandi describes how before Avicenna left Khwarezm he had met Al-Biruni (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Iraqi (a renowned mathematician), Abu Sahl Masihi (a respected philosopher) and Abu al-Khayr Khammar (a great physician).

Question: What was one subject that Avicenna further developed?

Question: Who is another philosopher during this Islamic Golden Age?

Question: What is the name of one library that Avicenna had access to?

Question: Who was the famous astronomer that Avicenna met before he left Khwarezm?

Question: What text was proof that Avicenna debated philosophy with some of the greatest scholars of the time?
Passage: Avicenna was born c. 980 in Afšana, a village near Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan), the capital of the Samanids, a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan. His mother, named Setareh, was from Bukhara; his father, Abdullah, was a respected Ismaili scholar from Balkh, an important town of the Samanid Empire, in what is today Balkh Province, Afghanistan, although this is not universally agreed upon. His father worked in the government of Samanid in the village Kharmasain, a Sunni regional power. After five years, his younger brother, Mahmoud, was born. Avicenna first began to learn the Quran and literature in such a way that when he was ten years old he had essentially learned all of them.

Question: What present-day country was Avicenna born in?

Question: What Samanid dynasty capital was Avicenna born near?

Question: What present-day country is Avicenna's father thought to have come from?

Question: What was Avicenna's mother's name?

Question: By what age had Avicenna learned the entire Quran?
Passage: A number of theories have been proposed regarding Avicenna's madhab (school of thought within Islamic jurisprudence). Medieval historian Ẓahīr al-dīn al-Bayhaqī (d. 1169) considered Avicenna to be a follower of the Brethren of Purity. On the other hand, Dimitri Gutas along with Aisha Khan and Jules J. Janssens demonstrated that Avicenna was a Sunni Hanafi. However, the 14th cenutry Shia faqih Nurullah Shushtari according to Seyyed Hossein Nasr, maintained that he was most likely a Twelver Shia. Conversely, Sharaf Khorasani, citing a rejection of an invitation of the Sunni Governor Sultan Mahmoud Ghazanavi by Avicenna to his court, believes that Avicenna was an Ismaili. Similar disagreements exist on the background of Avicenna's family, whereas some writers considered them Sunni, some more recent writers contested that they were Shia.

Question: What secret society was Avicenna considered to be a follower of?

Question: Who thought that Avicenna was a Brethren of Purity follower?

Question: What Islamic denomination was Avicenna thought to be a member of?

Question: Who thought Avicenna was a Shia?

Question: What was the name of one man who thought Avicenna was Sunni?