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WELTANSCHAUUNG: (German, "manner of looking at the world"): The philosophy of an individual, an artist, or a group of like-minded individuals, especially the philosophy concerning one's relationship to civilization. Cf. Weltansicht.

Xavier, didn't he write anything?

YARN (Old English gearn): An informal name for a long, rambling story--especially one dealing with adventure or tall-tales. The genre typically involves a strong narrative presence and colloquial or idiomatic English. The tone is realistic, but the content is typically fantastic or hyperbolic.Cf. the Chinese p'ing hua and the Russian skaz.

Zechariah.

Acts 5th book of the New Testament A.K.A. The Acts of The Apostles..

Marcus Junius Brutus, a recorded assassin and former friend of Julius Caesar.

What Xavier do you mean exactly? There's Emanuel Xavier, there's St. Francis Xavier, there's Xavier Abril, there's Xavier Naidoo, and there's Xavier Zubiri. Any one of them would do, and I guess our old friend Xenophon will thank us for having managed to finish another round of the alphabet without having to summon him yet again.

My turn:

Chtonic deities, a group of archetypal figures in ancient mythology that had to do with the forces of the underworld.

DECONSTRUCTION: An interpretive movement in literary theory that reached its apex in the 1970s. Deconstruction rejects absolute interpretations, stressing ambiguities and contradictions in literature. Deconstruction grew out of the linguistic principles of De Saussure who noted that many Indo-European languages create meaning by binary opposites. Verbal oppositions such as good/evil, light/dark, male/female, rise/fall, up/down, and high/low show a human tendency common transculturally to create vocabulary as pairs of opposites, with one of the two words arbitrarily given positive connotations and the other word arbitrarily given negative connotations. Deconstructionists carry this principle one step further by asserting that this tendency is endemic to all words, and hence all literature. For instance, they might try to complicate literary interpretations by revealing that "heroes" and "villains" often have overlapping traits, or else they have traits that only exist because of the presence of the other. Hence these concepts are unreliable in themselves as a basis for talking about literature in any meaningful way. Oftentimes, detractors of deconstruction argue that deconstructionists deny the value of literature, or assert that all literature is ultimately meaningless. It would be more accurate to assert that deconstructionists deny the absolute value of literature, and assert that all literature is ultimately incapable of offering a constructed meaning external to the "prison-house of language," which always embodies oppositional ideas within itself. Deconstruction is symptomatic in many ways of postmodernism. In the more radical fringes of postmodernism, postmodern artists, dramatists, poets, and writers seek to emphasize the conventions of story-telling (rather than hide these conventions behind verisimilitude) and break away from conventions like realism, cause-and-effect, and traditional plot in narratives. Such a text might be called "deconstructed" in a loose sense. See also différance.

Electra.

Frank Herbert

Gideon Trilogy (a trilogy by Linda Buckley-archer)

Heretics of Dune



By Frank Herbert

Isaiah.

Jeremiah

Kingsley Amis

[The] Left Hand of Darkess



By Ursula K. Leguin