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Literature Core Articles
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Survey articles
- Ancient literature: Add brief definition or description
- Medieval literature: Add brief definition or description
- American literature: The novels, plays, poetry, and other creative written work of the American people, from Colonial times to the present. [e]
- English literature: Literature of the British isles written in English. [e]
- French literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the French language from the earliest years until the present day [e]
- German literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the German language from the earliest stages (ca. 9th century) until the present day [e]
- Japanese literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Japanese language from the earliest years until the present. [e]
- Russian literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Russian language from the earliest years until the present day [e]
- Women in literature: Add brief definition or description
Writers
Ancient writers
- Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. [e]
- Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]
Science fiction writers
- Isaac Asimov: (1920-92) American chemist and prolific author, especially of science fiction. [e]
- Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. [e]
Russian writers
- Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: (1821-81) Russian writer; wrote Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov along with other well-known works. [e]
- Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
- Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) A Russian author, often called the "greatest of all novelists"; wrote War and Peace. [e]
American writers
- Jack Kerouac: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Frost: (1874-1963) American lyric poet who drew his inspiration from nature and the New England countryside. [e]
- Ernest Hemingway: (1899-1961) American writer, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms. and For Whom the Bell Tolls. [e]
- Edgar Allan Poe: (1809–1849) American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist, and one of the most prominent figures in the American Romantic Movement in literature. [e]
- Mark Twain: (1835-1910) Pen name of Samuel Clemens, a leading American novelist and humorist of the late 19th century. [e]
- Walt Whitman: (1819-92) American poet and essayist, famous for his flowing free verse in Leaves of Grass, including 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' [e]
Japanese writers
- Matsuo Bashō: (1644-94) Japanese haiku poet, widely considered to be the most accomplished practitioner of the art form. [e]
- Yasunari Kawabata: Japanese novelist (1899–1972) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works include Snow Country and The Sound of the Mountain. [e]
South African writers
- Alan Paton: Add brief definition or description
- Breyten Breytenbach: Add brief definition or description
- J.M. Coetzee: Add brief definition or description
- Nadine Gordimer: Add brief definition or description
Unsorted by nationality
- James Boswell: Add brief definition or description
- Charlotte Bronte: Add brief definition or description
- Emily Bronte: Add brief definition or description
- Alexandre Dumas: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
- Seamus Heavey: Add brief definition or description
- Ted Hughes: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Mann: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Baptiste Moliere: Add brief definition or description
- Dame Murdoch: Add brief definition or description
- Eugene O'Neill: Add brief definition or description
- Beatrix Potter: Add brief definition or description
- Marcel Proust: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Racine: Add brief definition or description
- George Sand: Add brief definition or description
- Tom Stoppard: Add brief definition or description
- August Strindberg: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
- Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
- Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description
- William Butler Yeats: Add brief definition or description
- Emile Zole: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
- Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description
- Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
- Henrik Ibsen: Add brief definition or description
- John Milton: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description
- George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
- Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
- William Blake: Add brief definition or description
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
- Dante Alighieri: Add brief definition or description
- George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
- Sherlock Holmes: Add brief definition or description
- Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
- James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
- Toni Morrison: Add brief definition or description
- Petrarch: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
- Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
- William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description
Literary genres
- Children's literature: Add brief definition or description
- Drama: Add brief definition or description
- Epic: Add brief definition or description
- Fairy tale: Add brief definition or description
- Fantasy: Add brief definition or description
- Folklore: Add brief definition or description
- Gothic novel: Add brief definition or description
- Haiku: Add brief definition or description
- Historical novel: Add brief definition or description
- Mystery: Add brief definition or description
- Novel: Add brief definition or description
- Romance: Add brief definition or description
- Science fiction: Add brief definition or description
- Technothriller: Add brief definition or description
- Thriller: Add brief definition or description
- Short story: Add brief definition or description
- Young adult: Add brief definition or description
Literary motifs, styles, and techniques
- Allegory: Add brief definition or description
- Anticlimax: Add brief definition or description
- Antihero: Add brief definition or description
- Climax: Add brief definition or description
- Confessional poetry: Add brief definition or description
- Irony: Add brief definition or description
- Metaphor: Add brief definition or description
- Motif: Add brief definition or description
- Simile: Add brief definition or description
- Theme: Add brief definition or description
Literary movements
- Aestheticism: Add brief definition or description
- Classicism: Add brief definition or description
- Modernism: Add brief definition or description
- Postmodernism: Add brief definition or description
- Realism: Add brief definition or description
- Romanticism: Add brief definition or description
- Surrealism: Add brief definition or description
- Stream of consciousness: Add brief definition or description
- Symbolism: Add brief definition or description
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List of Subsidiary Literature pages
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Ancient literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Medieval literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/American literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/English literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Japanese literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/French literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Russian literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/German literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Science fiction literature