CZ:Literature Workgroup

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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]
•  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

• Aestheticism: 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
•  Gothic novel: 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
•  Science fiction: 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

Already-written core articles in this workgroup

1. Lord Byron
2. Edgar Allan Poe
3. Poetry
4. William Shakespeare

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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