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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. | ||
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'''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. | ||
In the listings below, articles (links) rendered in blue are those articles which have at least some substantive content beyond a mere definition. Those articles rendered bold-faced link to lemma articles, which have no content beyond the bare definition only. If the link is rendered magenta, then not even a lemma article has been created. The bar graph to the left of those articles which have substantive content (blue link) indicates the level of completeness of the | ===Transcluded list from CZ:Core Articles=== | ||
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{{rpl|Herman Melville||:}} | {{rpl|Herman Melville||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Louisa May Alcott|| | {{rpl|Louisa May Alcott||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Emily Dickinson||:}} | {{rpl|Emily Dickinson||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Edgar Allan Poe||:}} | {{rpl|Edgar Allan Poe||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Mark Twain||:}} | {{rpl|Mark Twain||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Willa Cather|| | {{rpl|Willa Cather||'''New '''}} | ||
{{rpl|Robert Frost|| | {{rpl|Robert Frost||:}} | ||
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{{rpl|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|| | {{rpl|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe||'''New '''}} | ||
{{rpl|Theodor Fontane||:}} | {{rpl|Theodor Fontane||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Thomas Mann||:}} | {{rpl|Thomas Mann||:}} | ||
{{rpl|Heinrich Heine||:}} | |||
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{{rpl|Friedrich Schiller||:}} | {{rpl|Friedrich Schiller||:}} | ||
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{{rpl|Paul Celan||:}} | |||
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{{rpl|Mystery}} | {{rpl|Mystery fiction}} | ||
{{rpl|Novel}} | {{rpl|Novel}} | ||
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{{rpl|Postmodernism}} | {{rpl|Postmodernism}} | ||
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{{rpl|Beowulf}} | {{rpl|Beowulf}} | ||
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{{rpl|Chanson de Roland}} | {{rpl|Chanson de Roland}} | ||
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{{rpl|Carmina burana}} | {{rpl|Carmina burana}} | ||
{{rpl| | {{rpl|Nibelungenlied}} | ||
{{rpl|The Works of Ossian}} | |||
{{rpl|One Thousand and One Nights}} | |||
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National Literatures
- English literature: Add brief definition or description
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- Jewish literature: Add brief definition or description
- Post-colonial literature: Add brief definition or description
- Russian literature: Add brief definition or description
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- Spanish literature: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Literary Genres
- Autobiography: Add brief definition or description
- Biography: Add brief definition or description
- Critical study: Add brief definition or description
- Drama: Add brief definition or description
- Essay: Add brief definition or description
- Historical novel: Add brief definition or description
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- Poetry: Add brief definition or description
- Romance novel: Add brief definition or description
- Short story: A short work of fiction. [e]
Other Related Topics
- Composition (artistic): Add brief definition or description
- Criticism: Add brief definition or description
- Literary reading: Add brief definition or description
- Literary review (periodical): Add brief definition or description
- Literary review (article): Add brief definition or description
Literary Movements
- Arzamas Society: Add brief definition or description
- Beat generation: Add brief definition or description
- Black arts movement: Add brief definition or description
- Bloomsbury Group: Add brief definition or description
- Generation of 1898: Add brief definition or description
- Generation of 1927: Add brief definition or description
- Heidelberg Romantics: Add brief definition or description
- Negrismo movement: Add brief definition or description
- Negritude: Add brief definition or description
- Prague Circle: Add brief definition or description
- Spasmodic Poets: Add brief definition or description
In the listings below, articles (links) rendered in blue are those articles which have at least some substantive content beyond a mere definition. Those articles rendered bold-faced link to lemma articles, which have no content beyond the bare definition only. If the link is rendered magenta, then not even a lemma article has been created. The bar graph to the left of those articles which have substantive content (blue link) indicates the level of completeness of the article.
Survey articles
- Ancient literature: Add brief definition or description
- Medieval literature: Add brief definition or description
- American literature: Add brief definition or description
- English literature: Add brief definition or description
- French literature: Add brief definition or description
- German literature: Add brief definition or description
- Japanese literature: Add brief definition or description
- Russian literature: Add brief definition or description
- Women in literature: Add brief definition or description
- Novel: Add brief definition or description
- Poetry: Add brief definition or description
Writers
Ancient writers
- Homer: Add brief definition or description
- Aeschylus: Add brief definition or description
- Aristophanes: Add brief definition or description
- Euripides: Add brief definition or description
- Sophocles: Add brief definition or description
New Ovid: Add brief definition or description
Medieval writers
New Dante Alighieri: Add brief definition or description
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Add brief definition or description
- Gottfried von Straßburg: Add brief definition or description
New Hartmann von Aue: Add brief definition or description
- Omar Khayyam: Add brief definition or description
- Petrarch: Add brief definition or description
- Chrétien de Troyes: Add brief definition or description
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Add brief definition or description
Children's and young adult literature
- Dr. Seuss: Add brief definition or description
- Hans Christian Andersen: Add brief definition or description
- Rudyard Kipling: Add brief definition or description
- Lewis Carroll: Add brief definition or description
- Brüder Grimm: Add brief definition or description
Science-fiction writers
- Isaac Asimov: Add brief definition or description
- Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
- Lois McMaster Bujold: Add brief definition or description
- C. J. Cherryh: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur C. Clarke: Add brief definition or description
- Robert A. Heinlein: Add brief definition or description
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Add brief definition or description
- Stanisław Lem: Add brief definition or description
- Larry Niven: Add brief definition or description
- Jack Vance: Add brief definition or description
- Jules Verne: Add brief definition or description
New H. G. Wells: Add brief definition or description
American writers
New Washington Irving: Add brief definition or description
- James Fenimore Cooper: Add brief definition or description
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Add brief definition or description
- Henry David Thoreau: Add brief definition or description
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Add brief definition or description
- Herman Melville: Add brief definition or description
- Louisa May Alcott: Add brief definition or description
- Emily Dickinson: Add brief definition or description
- Edgar Allan Poe: Add brief definition or description
- Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description
New Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description
- Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
- John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description
- William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
- Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description
- Toni Morrision: Add brief definition or description
- Thornton Wilder: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Miller: Add brief definition or description
- John Updike: Add brief definition or description
- Ezra Pound: Add brief definition or description
English writers
- Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
- William Blake: Add brief definition or description
- Charlotte Brontë: Add brief definition or description
- Emily Brontë: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Browning: Add brief definition or description
- John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Conrad: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
- John Donne: Add brief definition or description
- T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
- John Keats: Add brief definition or description
- Rudyard Kipling: Add brief definition or description
- John Milton: Add brief definition or description
- George Orwell: Add brief definition or description
- William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description
- George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
- 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
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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/Children's and young adult literature]
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Science fiction literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Women in literature