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Literature Core Articles

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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]
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 Heinlein: Add brief definition or description
Sherlock Holmes: Archetypal fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ^[e]
Aldous Huxley: (1894-1963) British novelist best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. ^[e]
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]
Jack Kerouac: Add brief definition or description
Toni Morrison: (1931- ) US writer, winner of Nobel Prize, whose writings focus on the African-American experience; wrote Song of Solomon. ^[e]
Francesco Petrarch: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
Percy Bysshe Shelley: (1792-1822) English poet, major exponent of the romantic movement. ^[e]
Virginia Woolf: (1882-1941) Feminist author, essayist, and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929) ^[e]
William Wordsworth: (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) One of the leading English romantic poets. ^[e]

Literary motifs and genre

Anticlimax: A figure of speech in which the writer goes from a sophisticated point to a mere trifle of a statement. ^[e]
Antihero: Add brief definition or description
Climax: Add brief definition or description
Epic: Add brief definition or description
Haiku: Add brief definition or description
Historical novel: Add brief definition or description
Irony: Add brief definition or description
Metaphor: Add brief definition or description
Mystery: Add brief definition or description
Motif: Add brief definition or description
Novel: Add brief definition or description
Short story: Add brief definition or description
Simile: Add brief definition or description
Theme: Add brief definition or description

Literary styles

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