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| Animation Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although several other forms of presenting animation also exist. Animation | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788–September 21, 1860) German philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world. Arthur_Schopenhauer | |
| Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. In a career that spanned 50 years, Kurosawa directed 30 films. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. In 1989, he was awarded the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement "for cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world." Akira_Kurosawa | |
| Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 Arthur_Miller | |
| Anthroposophy Anthroposophy, a spiritual philosophy based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner developmentnatural science's investigations of the physical world. Anthroposophy | |
| Anaïs Nin Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a Cuban-Spanish-French author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica. Anaïs_Nin | |
| And did those feet in ancient time "And did those feet in ancient time" is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton: a Poem. The date on the title page of 1804 for Milton is probably when the plates were begun but the poem was printed c. 1808.. Today it is best known as the hymn "Jerusalem," with music written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916. The poem was inspired by the apocryphal story that a young Jesus, accompanied by his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, travelled to the area that is now England and visited Glastonbury. And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time | |
| C. S. Forester Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27 1899 – April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. C._S._Forester | |
| Colette Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 3 August 1954). She is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, for her novel Gigi, which provided the plot for a Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical. Colette | |
| Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (c. 1659-1661 — 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even referred to by some as one of the founders of the English novel. Daniel_Defoe | |
| Enid Blyton Talk:Enid_Blyton | |
| Frank Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 science fiction author. Although also a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics and power. Frank_Herbert | |
| Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (; b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a Portuguese poet and writer. He was also a literary critic and translator. The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda. He was bilingual in Portuguese and English, and fluent in French. Fernando_Pessoa | |
| Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant () (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protégé of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient, effortless dénouement. Guy_de_Maupassant | |
| Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert ( in French) (December 12, 1821 May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style. Gustave_Flaubert | |
| George Eliot Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight.She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. George_Eliot | |
| H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), H._G._Wells | |
| Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse () (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. Hermann_Hesse | |
| Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness () (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902—February 8, 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic novelist and author of Independent People, The Atom Station, and Iceland's Bell. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. Halldór_Laxness | |
| Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857Polish-born British novelist, writing in English, while living in England. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a strong Polish accent). Joseph_Conrad | |
| John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 short story writer, art critic, and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Both Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest received the Pulitzer Prize. John_Updike | |
| Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradoxavant-garde. Jean_Cocteau | |
| James Thurber James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. cartoons and short stories) to The New Yorker magazine. James_Thurber | |
| Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be Norway's soul. In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil". Knut_Hamsun | |
| Louis Leakey Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (L.S.B. Leakey) (August 7, 1903 – October 1, 1972) was a Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there. Louis_Leakey | |
| Leon Battista Alberti Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 April 20, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. In Italy, this first name is usually spelled "Leone", but Alberti is known as Leon. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. Leon_Battista_Alberti | |
| Leon Battista Alberti Talk:Leon_Battista_Alberti | |
| Margaret Mead Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture, and also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Margaret_Mead | |
| Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell (November 8 1900 – August 16 1949) was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies (see list of best-selling books). An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking ten Academy Awards. Margaret_Mitchell | |
| Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz (, ) (December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism. Naguib_Mahfouz | |
| Occult The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g. an "occult bleed" may be one detected indirectly by the presence of otherwise unexplained anaemia.The word has many uses in the English language, popularly meaning "knowledge of the paranormal", as opposed to "knowledge of the measurable", usually referred to as science. Occult | |
| Oswald Spengler Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 Blankenburg am Harz Munich) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes) in which he puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations. Oswald_Spengler | |
| Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, – March 2, ) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states. Philip_K._Dick | |
| Plato Talk:Plato | |
| Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner (25 or 27 February 1861 – 30 March 1925), an Austrian philosopher, educator, architect, social thinker, and esotericist, gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded a new spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of European transcendentalist roots with links to Theosophy. Rudolf_Steiner | |
| Science fiction Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and capitalization) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, magazines, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media. Science_fiction | |
| Stanisław Lem Stanisław Lem ( ; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of Solaris, which has twice been made into a feature film. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon claimed that Lem was the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. Stanisław_Lem | |
| Søren Kierkegaard Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( or Søren_Kierkegaard | |
| Stanisław Lem Talk:Stanisław_Lem | |
| Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author.Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. Sylvia_Plath | |
| Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his early fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world. Salman_Rushdie | |
| Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset (20 May, 1882–10 June, 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old. In 1924, she converted to Catholicism and became a lay Dominican. She fled Norway for the United States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German occupation, but returned after World War II ended in 1945. Sigrid_Undset | |
| List of science fiction editors Science fiction has been shaped as a literary genre by both authors and editors.This is an alphabetical list of some notable editors of speculative fiction (taken to include fantasy and horror fiction). List_of_science_fiction_editors | |
| Ted Hughes For the Canadian judge, see Ted Hughes (judge).Edward James Hughes OM (17 August 1930 English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. Ted_Hughes | |
| Tengwar NoteTengwar is a script that was invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. In his works, the tengwar script, invented by Fëanor, was used to write a number of the languages of Middle-earth, including Quenya and Sindarin. However, it can also be used to write other languages, such as English (most of Tolkien's tengwar samples are actually in English). The word tengwar is Quenya for "letters". The corresponding singular is tengwa, "letter". Tengwar | |
| Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Lord_of_the_Flies | |
| Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking man's Da Vinci Code". Umberto_Eco | |
| Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (, ) (,c Saint Petersburg – 2 July 1977, Montreux) was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems.Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is frequently cited as amongst his most important novels, and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate word play and descriptive detail that characterized all his works. Vladimir_Nabokov | |
| Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Virginia_Woolf | |
| Vitruvius Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BCE, died after c. 15 BCE) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer (possibly praefectus fabrum during military service or praefect architectus armamentarius of the apparitor status group), active in the 1st century BC. Vitruvius |
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