...l Asian authors have responded to the restrictions on history writing by reporting accurate history and relaying messages of the past in the guise of literature. The field of literature has its own strictures. Thus, Central Asians have tried to ensure that their output is both the real history and sufficiently veiled (for example, under the "yarn" genre) to pass censorship...

...Ham Alav • Peter B. Golden (Rutgers) Codex Comanicus • Richard Frye (Harvard) Narshaki's The History of Bukhara • Robert Dankoff (Chicago) Adab Literature • Uli Schamiloglu (Wisconsin-Madison) Umdet ul Ahbar • Kevin Krisciunas (Joint Astronomy Centre) Ulug Beg's Zij • Audrey Altstadt (UMass-Amherst) Bakikhanli's Nasihatlar • Edward J. Lazzerini (New Orleans) ...

...ENNIUM A) Definition: PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antithes... ...tions counted. We couldn’t publish almost anything. Then, I said: Let’s do literature… without doing literature! Let’s write… without actually writin... ...ature! Let’s write… without actually writing anything. How? Simply: object literature! “The flying of a bird”, for example, represents a “natural po... ...ted in the country. I started from politic, social, and immediately got to literature, art, philosophy, even science. Through experiments one brings ... ..., antagonism, non-conformism, the paradoxes in other words of anything (in literature, art, science), while futurism, cubism, surrealism, abstractism... ... the tyranny of the classic and its dogma. I allowed any boldness: - anti-literature and its literature; - flexible forms fixed, or the alive face ... ...onaries or enciclopedias) - poems wich exist by their absence; - after-war literature: pages and pages bombed by filthiness, triteness, and non- poet... ... transformation of the abnormal to the normal; - pro Non-Art Art; - make literature from nothing! The poet is not a prince of ducks! The notion of... ... possible, the impossible too!”), F. Smarandache initiated “paradoxism” in literature, art, and philosophy in the 1980s. Its main thesis is: “The Se...

...er as Prince Vlad Ţepeş, could not escape to the attention of the Romanian writers and artists. Starting with the XIX century, he was subject of more literature and artist creations, so that I have continued the odyssey of Vlad Ţepeş personality by revealing some of these works. Finally, I have touched one of the most controversial subjects regarding Prince Vlad Ţepeş, the...