Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright.In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."

Jul 15, 2012 · The Setting Sun Osamu Dazai What is it with Japanese literature, I always feel a sense of awe whenever I plunge myself into artistic universe of the country of rising sun and Osamu Dazai does no harm to the reputation of it. I find that plot development and action have often been of secondary interest to emotional issues and most of the modern Japanese …

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Rereading this novel I felt that the award of the 2017 Nobel prize for Literature to Ishiguro was a very safe choice. In one way Ishiguro's books are not very interesting, the narrator might be unreliable or limited, there is a concern for memory and the role of a creative intelligence in understanding and reinterpreting the past, there are issues of guilt and responsibility, and love.

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抄録 本論は，広義の言語研究の一環として収集されたデータや関連資料がどのような危機にあるか，また，それらのデータや資料（以下，言語データ）を継承・保存する上でどんな課題があるか，また利活用に際して遵守すべき研究上の倫理とはどのようなものなのか，について論じるも …