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===Literary motifs, styles, and techniques=== | ===Literary motifs, styles, and techniques=== | ||
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Literature Core Articles
- (10) = worth this number of points * = external, to replace or rewrite ** = micro-stub
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]- 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]- 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]
Robert Burns: The National poet of Scotland (1759-96); writer of Auld Lang Syne. [e]- Bertolt Brecht: (Feb. 19, 1898 - Aug. 14, 1956) Playwright and theatre theorist known for elucidating the alienation effect and who was persecuted for what was perceived to be a Marxist slant to his plays. [e]
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: (1749 - 1832) German writer, poet, and philosopher; still considered the greatest writer of German literature [e]
- Victor Hugo: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), poet, novelist and playwright, was the dominant French writer of the 19th century, and also a considerable political figure. [e]
- Henrik Ibsen: (1828-1906) Norwegian dramatist regarded as the founder of modern prose drama; wrote A Doll's House and An Enemy of the People. [e]
- John Milton: English 17th-century poet, author of Paradise Lost. [e]
- Walter Scott: (1771-1832) A prolific Scottish poet and novelist, considered the originater of the genre of historical fiction. [e]
- George Bernard Shaw: (1856 - 1950) Irish playwright, writer, socialist propagandist, and art, music and drama critic who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. [e]
- Jane Austen: English novelist (1775-1817), author of Pride and Prejudice and other novels. [e]
- William Blake: (1757-1827) was an English poet and artist, posthumously seen as one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement. [e]
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
- Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. [e]
- Charles Dickens: (1812-70) English novelist and social critic; wrote the semi-autobiographical David Copperfield. [e]
- Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. [e]
- George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- T.S. Eliot: (1888-1965) British-American 20th century poet who wrote The Waste Land and Four Quartets. [e]
- William Faulkner: (1897-1962) US writer who wrote about the American South; wrote The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!. [e]
- Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. [e]
- Sherlock Holmes: Add brief definition or description
- Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
- James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
- Jack Kerouac: 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
- Epic: Add brief definition or description
- Fantasy: 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
- Short story: Add brief definition or description
- Young adult: Add brief definition or description
Literary motifs, styles, and techniques
- Motif: Add brief definition or description
- Irony: Add brief definition or description
- Metaphor: Add brief definition or description
- Aestheticism: Add brief definition or description
- Anticlimax: Add brief definition or description
- Antihero: Add brief definition or description
- Climax: Add brief definition or description
- Beat Generation: Add brief definition or description
- Black humor: Add brief definition or description
- Classicism: Add brief definition or description
- Confessional poetry: Add brief definition or description
- Cyberpunk: Add brief definition or description
- Jazz Age: Add brief definition or description
- Lost Generation: 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
- Simile: Add brief definition or description
- Theme: Add brief definition or description
- Southern Agrarians: 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
- Transcendentalism: 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