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The purpose of this [[Literature]] Workgroup is to co-ordinate and organise the work on, and improvement of, articles on Literature. If you'd like to join as an Author, please add yourself to Category:Literature Authors, introduce yourself on the [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/board,48.0.html Literature Workgroup Forum] and start improving articles. If you think you have the expertise to be an Editor, take a look at the instructions on [http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html how to become an editor] and then add yourself to Category: Literature Editors. | The purpose of this [[Literature]] Workgroup is to co-ordinate and organise the work on, and improvement of, articles on Literature. If you'd like to join as an Author, please add yourself to Category:Literature Authors, introduce yourself on the [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/board,48.0.html Literature Workgroup Forum] and start improving articles. If you think you have the expertise to be an Editor, take a look at the instructions on [http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html how to become an editor] and then add yourself to Category: Literature Editors. | ||
== | ==Core Articles == | ||
'''What are core articles?''' Core articles are our top priority articles – articles that are most in demand and most important for us to include in an encyclopedia that has any hope of being comprehensive. | '''What are core articles?''' Core articles are our top priority articles – articles that are most in demand and most important for us to include in an encyclopedia that has any hope of being comprehensive. | ||
These are the highest priority articles items for the Literature Workgroup, though they have not yet been finalized by a Workgroup editor. In order to keep the list manageable, this list should be contain no more than about 200 items total. Thus only those articles should be added which can reasonably be considered of ''paramount'' importance for the Literature WG. | These are the highest priority articles items for the Literature Workgroup, though they have not yet been finalized by a Workgroup editor. In order to keep the list manageable, this list should be contain no more than about 200 items total. Thus only those articles should be added which can reasonably be considered of ''paramount'' importance for the Literature WG. | ||
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{{rpl|Ovid}} | {{rpl|Ovid||'''New '''}} | ||
{{rpl|Virgil}} | {{rpl|Virgil||:}} | ||
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{{rpl|Geoffrey Chaucer}} | {{rpl|Dante Alighieri||'''New '''}} | ||
{{rpl|Omar Khayyam}} | {{rpl|Geoffrey Chaucer||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Petrarch}} | {{rpl|Gottfried von Straßburg||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Hartmann von Aue||'''New '''}} | |||
{{rpl|Omar Khayyam||:}} | |||
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{{rpl|Wolfram von Eschenbach||:}} | |||
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{{rpl|Dr. Seuss}} | {{rpl|Dr. Seuss||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Hans Christian Andersen}} | {{rpl|Hans Christian Andersen||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling}} | {{rpl|Rudyard Kipling||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Lewis Carroll||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Brüder Grimm||:}} | |||
<H4>Science-fiction writers</H4> | <H4>Science-fiction writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Isaac Asimov}} | {{rpl|Isaac Asimov||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Arthur C. Clarke}} | {{rpl|Margaret Atwood||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Robert A. Heinlein}} | {{rpl|Lois McMaster Bujold||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Ursula Le Guin}} | {{rpl|C. J. Cherryh||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Larry Niven}} | {{rpl|Arthur C. Clarke||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Jack Vance}} | {{rpl|Robert A. Heinlein||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Jules Verne}} | {{rpl|Ursula K. Le Guin||:}} | ||
{{rpl|H. G. Wells}} | {{rpl|Stanisław Lem||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Larry Niven||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Jack Vance||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Jules Verne||:}} | |||
{{rpl|H. G. Wells||'''New '''}} | |||
{{rpl|Philip K. Dick||:}} | |||
<H4>American writers</H4> | <H4>American writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Washington Irving}} | {{rpl|Washington Irving||'''New '''}} | ||
{{rpl|James Fenimore Cooper}} | {{rpl|James Fenimore Cooper||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Ralph Waldo Emerson}} | {{rpl|Ralph Waldo Emerson||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}} | {{rpl|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Nathaniel Hawthorne}} | {{rpl|Henry David Thoreau||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Herman Melville}} | {{rpl|Nathaniel Hawthorne||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Louisa May Alcott}} | {{rpl|Herman Melville||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Emily Dickinson}} | {{rpl|Louisa May Alcott||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Edgar Allan Poe}} | {{rpl|Emily Dickinson||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Mark Twain}} | {{rpl|Edgar Allan Poe||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Willa Cather}} | {{rpl|Mark Twain||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Robert Frost}} | {{rpl|Willa Cather||'''New '''}} | ||
{{rpl|Ernest Hemingway}} | {{rpl|Robert Frost||:}} | ||
{{rpl|John Steinbeck}} | {{rpl|Ernest Hemingway||:}} | ||
{{rpl|William Faulkner}} | {{rpl|John Steinbeck||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Vladimir Nabokov}} | {{rpl|William Faulkner||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Toni Morrision}} | {{rpl|Vladimir Nabokov||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Toni Morrision||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Thornton Wilder||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Arthur Miller||:}} | |||
{{rpl|John Updike||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Ezra Pound||:}} | |||
<H4>English writers</H4> | <H4>English writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Jane Austen}} | {{rpl|Jane Austen||:}} | ||
{{rpl|William Blake}} | {{rpl|William Blake||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Charlotte Brontë}} | {{rpl|Charlotte Brontë||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Emily Brontë}} | {{rpl|Emily Brontë||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Robert Browning}} | {{rpl|Robert Browning||:}} | ||
{{rpl|John Bunyan}} | {{rpl|John Bunyan||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Samuel Taylor Coleridge}} | {{rpl|Samuel Taylor Coleridge||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Joseph Conrad}} | {{rpl|Joseph Conrad||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Charles Dickens}} | {{rpl|Charles Dickens||:}} | ||
{{rpl|John Donne}} | {{rpl|John Donne||:}} | ||
{{rpl|T.S. Eliot}} | {{rpl|T.S. Eliot||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Thomas Hardy}} | {{rpl|Thomas Hardy||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Samuel Johnson}} | {{rpl|Samuel Johnson||:}} | ||
{{rpl|John Keats}} | {{rpl|John Keats||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling}} | {{rpl|Rudyard Kipling||:}} | ||
{{rpl|John Milton}} | {{rpl|John Milton||:}} | ||
{{rpl|George Orwell}} | {{rpl|George Orwell||:}} | ||
{{rpl|William Shakespeare}} | {{rpl|William Shakespeare||:}} | ||
{{rpl|George Bernard Shaw}} | {{rpl|George Bernard Shaw||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Percy Bysshe Shelley}} | {{rpl|Percy Bysshe Shelley||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Alfred, Lord Tennyson}} | {{rpl|Alfred, Lord Tennyson||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Oscar Wilde}} | {{rpl|Oscar Wilde||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Virginia Woolf}} | {{rpl|Virginia Woolf||:}} | ||
{{rpl|William Wordsworth}} | {{rpl|William Wordsworth||:}} | ||
<H4>French writers</H4> | <H4>French writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Albert Camus}} | {{rpl|Albert Camus||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Guy de Maupassant}} | {{rpl|Guy de Maupassant||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Alexandre Dumas}} | {{rpl|Alexandre Dumas||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Victor Hugo}} | {{rpl|Victor Hugo||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Jean Baptiste Moliere}} | {{rpl|Jean Baptiste Moliere||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Marcel Proust}} | {{rpl|Marcel Proust||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Jean Racine}} | {{rpl|Jean Racine||:}} | ||
{{rpl|George Sand}} | {{rpl|George Sand||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Voltaire}} | {{rpl|Stendhal||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Honoré de Balzac}} | {{rpl|Voltaire||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Honoré de Balzac||:}} | |||
{{rpl|François Rabelais||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Georges Perec||:}} | |||
<H4>German writers</H4> | <H4>German writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Bertolt Brecht}} | {{rpl|Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen||:|}} | ||
{{rpl|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}} | {{rpl|Bertolt Brecht||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Theodor Fontane}} | {{rpl|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe||'''New '''}} | ||
{{rpl|Thomas Mann}} | {{rpl|Theodor Fontane||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Johann Nestroy}} | {{rpl|Thomas Mann||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Friedrich Schiller}} | {{rpl|Heinrich Heine||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Arno Schmidt}} | {{rpl|Johann Nestroy||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Arthur Schnitzler}} | {{rpl|Friedrich Schiller||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Günter Grass}} | {{rpl|Arno Schmidt||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Gotthold Ephraim Lessing}} | {{rpl|Arthur Schnitzler||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Heinrich von Kleist}} | {{rpl|Günter Grass||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Gerhart Hauptmann}} | {{rpl|Gotthold Ephraim Lessing||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Heinrich von Kleist||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Gerhart Hauptmann||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Rainer Maria Rilke||:}} | |||
{{rpl|E.T.A. Hoffmann||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Paul Celan||:}} | |||
<H4>Irish writers</H4> | <H4>Irish writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|James Joyce}} | {{rpl|James Joyce||:}} | ||
{{rpl|William Butler Yeats}} | {{rpl|William Butler Yeats||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Laurence Sterne||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Jonathan Swift||:}} | |||
<H4>Japanese writers</H4> | <H4>Japanese writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Ryunosuke Akutagawa}} | {{rpl|Ryunosuke Akutagawa||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Kobo Abe}} | {{rpl|Kobo Abe||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Masuji Ibuse}} | {{rpl|Masuji Ibuse||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Kenzaburo Oe}} | {{rpl|Kenzaburo Oe||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Natsume Soseki}} | {{rpl|Natsume Soseki||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Junichiro Tanizaki}} | {{rpl|Junichiro Tanizaki||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Yukio Mishima}} | {{rpl|Yukio Mishima||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Matsuo Bashō}} | {{rpl|Matsuo Bashō||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Yasunari Kawabata | {{rpl|Yasunari Kawabata||:}} | ||
<H4>Russian writers</H4> | <H4>Russian writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Anton Chekhov}} | {{rpl|Anton Chekhov||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Fyodor Dostoevsky}} | {{rpl|Fyodor Dostoevsky||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Nikolai Gogol}} | {{rpl|Nikolai Gogol||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Maxim Gorky}} | {{rpl|Maxim Gorky||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Mikhail Lermontov}} | {{rpl|Mikhail Lermontov||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Boris Pasternak}} | {{rpl|Boris Pasternak||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Alexander Pushkin}} | {{rpl|Alexander Pushkin||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Alexander Solzhenitsyn}} | {{rpl|Alexander Solzhenitsyn||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Leo Tolstoy}} | {{rpl|Leo Tolstoy||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Ivan Turgenev}} | {{rpl|Ivan Turgenev||:}} | ||
<H4>Scottish writers</H4> | <H4>Scottish writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Robert Burns}} | {{rpl|Robert Burns||:}} | ||
{{rpl| | {{rpl|Arthur Conan Doyle||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Walter Scott}} | {{rpl|Walter Scott||:}} | ||
<H4>South African writers</H4> | <H4>South African writers</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Alan Paton}} | {{rpl|Alan Paton||:}} | ||
<H4>Spanish writers</H4> | |||
{{rpl|Miguel de Cervantes||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Federico Garcia Lorca||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Calderón de la Barca||:}} | |||
<H4>Yiddish Writers</H4> | |||
{{rpl|Isaac Bashevis Singer||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Sholem Aleichem||:}} | |||
<H4>Unsorted by nationality</H4> | <H4>Unsorted by nationality</H4> | ||
{{rpl|Margaret Atwood}} | {{rpl|Margaret Atwood||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Henrik Ibsen}} | {{rpl|Henrik Ibsen||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Giovanni Boccaccio}} | {{rpl|August Strindberg||:}} | ||
{{rpl|George Eliot}} | {{rpl|Giovanni Boccaccio||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Aldous Huxley}} | {{rpl|George Eliot||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Thomas Pynchon}} | {{rpl|Aldous Huxley||:}} | ||
{{rpl| | {{rpl|Thomas Pynchon||:}} | ||
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{{rpl|Lord Byron||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Umberto Eco||:}} | |||
{{rpl|Salman Rushdie||:}} | |||
===Literary genres=== | ===Literary genres=== | ||
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{{rpl|Haiku}} | {{rpl|Haiku}} | ||
{{rpl|Historical novel}} | {{rpl|Historical novel}} | ||
{{rpl|Mystery}} | {{rpl|Mystery fiction}} | ||
{{rpl|Novel}} | {{rpl|Novel}} | ||
{{rpl|Poetry}} | {{rpl|Poetry}} | ||
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{{rpl|Allegory}} | {{rpl|Allegory}} | ||
{{rpl|Anticlimax}} | {{rpl|Anticlimax}} | ||
{{rpl| | {{rpl|Anti-hero}} | ||
{{rpl|Climax}} | {{rpl|Climax}} | ||
{{rpl|Confessional poetry}} | {{rpl|Confessional poetry}} | ||
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{{rpl|Aestheticism}} | {{rpl|Aestheticism}} | ||
{{rpl|Classicism}} | {{rpl|Classicism}} | ||
{{rpl|The Enlightenment}} | |||
{{rpl|Modernism}} | {{rpl|Modernism}} | ||
{{rpl|Postmodernism}} | {{rpl|Postmodernism}} | ||
{{rpl|Realism}} | {{rpl|Realism}} | ||
{{rpl| | {{rpl|Romantic Era}} | ||
{{rpl|Surrealism}} | {{rpl|Surrealism}} | ||
{{rpl|Stream of consciousness}} | {{rpl|Stream of consciousness}} | ||
{{rpl|Symbolism}} | {{rpl|Symbolism}} | ||
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'''''Nota Bene''''': Please list here only those works of exceptional importance whose authorship is either unknown or about whose author very little is known. | |||
{{rpl|Arthurian legends}} | |||
{{rpl|Beowulf}} | |||
{{rpl|Poem of the Cid}} | |||
{{rpl|Chanson de Roland}} | |||
{{rpl|Lazarillo de Tormes}} | |||
{{rpl|Mabinogion}} | |||
{{rpl|The Tale of Genji}} | |||
{{rpl|The Epic of Gilgamesh}} | |||
{{rpl|Mahabharata}} | |||
{{rpl|Ramayana}} | |||
{{rpl|Carmina burana}} | |||
{{rpl|Nibelungenlied}} | |||
{{rpl|The Works of Ossian}} | |||
{{rpl|One Thousand and One Nights}} | |||
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- Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description
- Virginia Woolf: (1882-1941) Feminist author, essayist, and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929) [e]
- William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description
French writers
- Albert Camus: Add brief definition or description
- Guy de Maupassant: Add brief definition or description
- Alexandre Dumas: Add brief definition or description
- Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Baptiste Moliere: 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
- Stendhal: Add brief definition or description
- Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
- Honoré de Balzac: Add brief definition or description
- François Rabelais: Add brief definition or description
- Georges Perec: Add brief definition or description
German writers
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Add brief definition or description
- Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description
New Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description
- Theodor Fontane: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Mann: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich Heine: Add brief definition or description
- Johann Nestroy: Add brief definition or description
- Friedrich Schiller: Add brief definition or description
- Arno Schmidt: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Schnitzler: Add brief definition or description
- Günter Grass: Add brief definition or description
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich von Kleist: Add brief definition or description
- Gerhart Hauptmann: Add brief definition or description
- Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
- E.T.A. Hoffmann: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Celan: Add brief definition or description
Irish writers
- James Joyce: (1882-1941) Irish novelist who portrayed life in Ireland in Dubliners; also wrote Ulysses, often regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novels. [e]
- William Butler Yeats: Add brief definition or description
- Laurence Sterne: Add brief definition or description
- Jonathan Swift: Add brief definition or description
Japanese writers
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Add brief definition or description
- Kobo Abe: Add brief definition or description
- Masuji Ibuse: Add brief definition or description
- Kenzaburo Oe: Add brief definition or description
- Natsume Soseki: Add brief definition or description
- Junichiro Tanizaki: Add brief definition or description
- Yukio Mishima: Add brief definition or description
- Matsuo Bashō: Add brief definition or description
- Yasunari Kawabata: Add brief definition or description
Russian writers
- Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Add brief definition or description
- Nikolai Gogol: Add brief definition or description
- Maxim Gorky: Add brief definition or description
- Mikhail Lermontov: Add brief definition or description
- Boris Pasternak: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Add brief definition or description
- Leo Tolstoy: Add brief definition or description
- Ivan Turgenev: Add brief definition or description
Scottish writers
- Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Conan Doyle: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description
South African writers
Spanish writers
- Miguel de Cervantes: Add brief definition or description
- Federico Garcia Lorca: Add brief definition or description
- Calderón de la Barca: Add brief definition or description
Yiddish Writers
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Add brief definition or description
- Sholem Aleichem: Add brief definition or description
Unsorted by nationality
- Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
- Henrik Ibsen: Add brief definition or description
- August Strindberg: Add brief definition or description
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
- George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
- Lord Byron: Add brief definition or description
- Umberto Eco: Add brief definition or description
- Salman Rushdie: 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 fiction: Add brief definition or description
- Novel: Add brief definition or description
- Poetry: 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: A short work of fiction. [e]
- Young adult: Add brief definition or description
Literary motifs, styles, and techniques
- Allegory: Add brief definition or description
- Anticlimax: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-hero: 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
- The Enlightenment: Add brief definition or description
- Modernism: Add brief definition or description
- Postmodernism: Add brief definition or description
- Realism: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Realism (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Romantic Era: 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
Works
Nota Bene: Please list here only those works of exceptional importance whose authorship is either unknown or about whose author very little is known.
- Arthurian legends: Add brief definition or description
- Beowulf: Add brief definition or description
- Poem of the Cid: Add brief definition or description
- Chanson de Roland: Add brief definition or description
- Lazarillo de Tormes: Add brief definition or description
- Mabinogion: Add brief definition or description
- The Tale of Genji: Add brief definition or description
- The Epic of Gilgamesh: Add brief definition or description
- Mahabharata: Add brief definition or description
- Ramayana: Add brief definition or description
- Carmina burana: Add brief definition or description
- Nibelungenlied: Add brief definition or description
- The Works of Ossian: Add brief definition or description
- One Thousand and One Nights: Add brief definition or description
Help plan Literature Week!
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/Children's and young adult literature]
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Science fiction literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Women in literature