world's largest continent and the craddle of humanity, religion, and civilization

The content has diversed and rich in literature

variety of literary works that was written over a period of thousand of years ago in all of the countries in Asia

A.K.A Arabic Literature

written in Arabic languange known with the scriptures in Koran

famous writer in West Asian

He is a Lebanist American philosophical essyist, novlist, poet, and artist

His works is about alienation, disruption, and lost rural beauty and security in a modern world

HIS WORKS is about REVELATION

What are the two literature in East Asian?

Most of their literature focuses on everyday event such as prevalent agricultural society.

It refects the political and social history of China

The oldest collection of Chinese poetry and was written duding Chou Dynasty

He is known as China's greatest modern writer of the 20th century

His sharp and unique essays created more than 600 articles

He was the head of Chinese Left-Wing Writers League in Shanghai in the 1930's

His works deal with themes of social concern problems of the poor women and intellectuals.

He wrote a Madman's diary in 1918 and "A Little Incident" in 1920

Early Japan borrowed much from CHINESE culture but evolved its OWN CHARACTER over time

It is the Japan's popular means of expression.

Poems that consist of alternative FIVE and SEVEN SYLLABLES with additionnal SEVEN-SYLLABLEEine at each end.

consist of 5 lines of 5-7-5-7 syllables.

This is the most prevalent verse from in Japanese Literature

It has 3 kines kf 5-7-5 syllables. Most of this is consits of Kigo

A seasonal words like snow or cherry blossoms

greatest haiku poets of Japan

fmous novelist and short story writers in Japanese Literature

The famous Japanese writers commited suicide using a dagger or sword with both hands that slit across the stomach.

commited suicidw due to financial burdens caused by his brother-in-law and because he inherit the schizophrenia traits of his mother

commited suicide assisted by his lover and one of his army men

he died by suicide along with his lover by drowning in a canal after abandoning his wife and children. He was an alcohol abuser that cause his health to detoriate

He had a successful life as a writer, but he was very depressed by the suicide of his friend Yukio Mishima and was reported to have nightmares about Mishima's suicide. He had Parkinson's disease, and died by domestic gas

the earliest form of Japanese drama

which is performed with the accompaniment of orchestra

Indian LITERATURE

Originally written in Sanskrit

the Indic Language of Hinduism and the Vedas, the religion's sacred text

Sanskrit lyric poetry can be categorized into three:

He is mainly a POET, but his literary works included ESSAYS, short STORIES, TRAVELOGUES, dramas, and THOUSANDS OF SONGS

The story is about love, religion, and patriotism

Nationalist Movement/Indian Women

Southeast Asian Literature

Traditionally heavily influenced by Indian Culture

Most of the imaginative literary works in Thai before 19th century were composed in....

Thailand's national epic is version of the Ramayana

He composed Ramakien in the 18th Century, it diverges from the popular Indian versions of the Ramayana

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