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  • China Miéville

    China Miéville

    China Tom Miéville FRSL (/m i ˈ eɪ v əl / mee-AY -vəl, born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and is all

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  • Contemporary philosophy

    Contemporary philosophy

    Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of anal

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  • Kyoto University

    Kyoto University

    Kyoto University(京都大学 , Kyōto daigaku ) , or KyotoU(京大 , Kyōdai ) , is a national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second

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  • Weird fiction

    Weird fiction

    Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Weird fiction either eschews or radically reinterprets traditional antagonists of supernatu

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  • Philippine English

    Philippine English

    This article possibly contains original research.Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (Sept

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  • Paul Thieme

    Paul Thieme

    Paul Thieme (German: [paʊl ˈtiːmə] ; 18 March 1905 – 24 April 2001) was a German Indologist and scholar of Vedic Sanskrit. In 1988 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he adde

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  • English dialects

    English dialects

    Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar. For the classification of varieties of English in pronunciation only, see reg

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  • Michael Witzel

    Michael Witzel

    Michael Witzel (born July 18, 1943) is a German-American philologist, comparative mythologist and Indologist. Witzel is the Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and the editor of the H

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  • Written English

    Written English

    This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ] , / / and ⟨ ⟩, se

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  • Comparative mythology

    Comparative mythology

    Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics. Comparative mythology has served a variety of academic purposes

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