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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.


== [[CZ:Core_Articles/Humanities|Literature Core Articles]] ==
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#[[Leo Tolstoy]]
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{{rpl|Ancient literature}}
{{rpl|Medieval literature}}
{{rpl|American literature}}
{{rpl|English literature}}
{{rpl|French literature}}
{{rpl|German literature}}
{{rpl|Japanese literature}}
{{rpl|Russian literature}}
{{rpl|Women in literature}}
{{rpl|Novel}}
{{rpl|Poetry}}
 
===Writers===
 
<H4>Ancient writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Homer||:}}
{{rpl|Aeschylus||:}}
{{rpl|Aristophanes||:}}
{{rpl|Euripides||:}}
{{rpl|Sophocles||:}}
{{rpl|Ovid||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Virgil||:}}
 
<H4>Medieval writers</H4>
 
<!-- Alphabetization of the German medieval authors is correct. It is customary to alphabetize them under their first name. -->
{{rpl|Dante Alighieri||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Geoffrey Chaucer||:}}
{{rpl|Gottfried von Straßburg||:}} 
{{rpl|Hartmann von Aue||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Omar Khayyam||:}}
{{rpl|Petrarch||:}}
{{rpl|Chrétien de Troyes||:}} 
{{rpl|Wolfram von Eschenbach||:}} 
<h4>Children's and young adult literature</H4>
 
{{rpl|Dr. Seuss||:}}
{{rpl|Hans Christian Andersen||:}}
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling||:}}
{{rpl|Lewis Carroll||:}}
{{rpl|Brüder Grimm||:}}
 
<H4>Science-fiction writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Isaac Asimov||:}}
{{rpl|Margaret Atwood||:}}
{{rpl|Lois McMaster Bujold||:}}
{{rpl|C. J. Cherryh||:}}
{{rpl|Arthur C. Clarke||:}}
{{rpl|Robert A. Heinlein||:}}
{{rpl|Ursula K. Le Guin||:}}
{{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>
 
{{rpl|Washington Irving||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|James Fenimore Cooper||:}}
{{rpl|Ralph Waldo Emerson||:}}
{{rpl|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow||:}}
{{rpl|Henry David Thoreau||:}}
{{rpl|Nathaniel Hawthorne||:}}
{{rpl|Herman Melville||:}}
{{rpl|Louisa May Alcott||:}}
{{rpl|Emily Dickinson||:}}
{{rpl|Edgar Allan Poe||:}}
{{rpl|Mark Twain||:}}
{{rpl|Willa Cather||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Robert Frost||:}}
{{rpl|Ernest Hemingway||:}}
{{rpl|John Steinbeck||:}}
{{rpl|William Faulkner||:}}
{{rpl|Vladimir Nabokov||:}}
{{rpl|Toni Morrision||:}}
{{rpl|Thornton Wilder||:}}
{{rpl|Arthur Miller||:}}
{{rpl|John Updike||:}}
{{rpl|Ezra Pound||:}}
 
 
<H4>English writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Jane Austen||:}}
{{rpl|William Blake||:}}
{{rpl|Charlotte Brontë||:}}
{{rpl|Emily Brontë||:}}
{{rpl|Robert Browning||:}}
{{rpl|John Bunyan||:}}
{{rpl|Samuel Taylor Coleridge||:}}
{{rpl|Joseph Conrad||:}}
{{rpl|Charles Dickens||:}}
{{rpl|John Donne||:}}
{{rpl|T.S. Eliot||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Hardy||:}}
{{rpl|Samuel Johnson||:}}
{{rpl|John Keats||:}}
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling||:}}
{{rpl|John Milton||:}}
{{rpl|George Orwell||:}}
{{rpl|William Shakespeare||:}}
{{rpl|George Bernard Shaw||:}}
{{rpl|Percy Bysshe Shelley||:}}
{{rpl|Alfred, Lord Tennyson||:}}
{{rpl|Oscar Wilde||:}}
{{rpl|Virginia Woolf||:}}
{{rpl|William Wordsworth||:}}
 
<H4>French writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Albert Camus||:}}
{{rpl|Guy de Maupassant||:}}
{{rpl|Alexandre Dumas||:}}
{{rpl|Victor Hugo||:}}
{{rpl|Jean Baptiste Moliere||:}}
{{rpl|Marcel Proust||:}}
{{rpl|Jean Racine||:}}
{{rpl|George Sand||:}}
{{rpl|Stendhal||:}}
{{rpl|Voltaire||:}}
{{rpl|Honoré de Balzac||:}}
{{rpl|François Rabelais||:}}
{{rpl|Georges Perec||:}}
 
<H4>German writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen||:|}}
{{rpl|Bertolt Brecht||:}}
{{rpl|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Theodor Fontane||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Mann||:}}
{{rpl|Heinrich Heine||:}}
{{rpl|Johann Nestroy||:}}
{{rpl|Friedrich Schiller||:}}
{{rpl|Arno Schmidt||:}}
{{rpl|Arthur Schnitzler||:}}
{{rpl|Günter Grass||:}}
{{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>
 
{{rpl|James Joyce||:}}
{{rpl|William Butler Yeats||:}}
{{rpl|Laurence Sterne||:}}
{{rpl|Jonathan Swift||:}}
 
<H4>Japanese writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Ryunosuke Akutagawa||:}}
{{rpl|Kobo Abe||:}}
{{rpl|Masuji Ibuse||:}}
{{rpl|Kenzaburo Oe||:}}
{{rpl|Natsume Soseki||:}}
{{rpl|Junichiro Tanizaki||:}}
{{rpl|Yukio Mishima||:}}
{{rpl|Matsuo Bashō||:}}
{{rpl|Yasunari Kawabata||:}}
 
<H4>Russian writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Anton Chekhov||:}}
{{rpl|Fyodor Dostoevsky||:}}
{{rpl|Nikolai Gogol||:}}
{{rpl|Maxim Gorky||:}}
{{rpl|Mikhail Lermontov||:}}
{{rpl|Boris Pasternak||:}}
{{rpl|Alexander Pushkin||:}}
{{rpl|Alexander Solzhenitsyn||:}}
{{rpl|Leo Tolstoy||:}}
{{rpl|Ivan Turgenev||:}}
 
<H4>Scottish writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Robert Burns||:}}
{{rpl|Arthur Conan Doyle||:}}
{{rpl|Walter Scott||:}}
 
<H4>South African writers</H4>
 
{{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>
 
{{rpl|Margaret Atwood||:}}
{{rpl|Henrik Ibsen||:}}
{{rpl|August Strindberg||:}}
{{rpl|Giovanni Boccaccio||:}}
{{rpl|George Eliot||:}}
{{rpl|Aldous Huxley||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Pynchon||:}}
 
{{rpl|Lord Byron||:}}
{{rpl|Umberto Eco||:}}
{{rpl|Salman Rushdie||:}}
 
===Literary genres===
 
{{rpl|Children's literature}}
{{rpl|Drama}}
{{rpl|Epic}}
{{rpl|Fairy tale}}
{{rpl|Fantasy}}
{{rpl|Folklore}}
{{rpl|Gothic novel}}
{{rpl|Haiku}}
{{rpl|Historical novel}}
{{rpl|Mystery fiction}}
{{rpl|Novel}}
{{rpl|Poetry}}
{{rpl|Romance literature|Romance}}
{{rpl|Science fiction}}
{{rpl|Technothriller}}
{{rpl|Thriller (genre)|Thriller}}
{{rpl|Short story}}
{{rpl|Young adult}}
 
===Literary motifs, styles, and techniques===
 
{{rpl|Allegory}}
{{rpl|Anticlimax}}
{{rpl|Anti-hero}}
{{rpl|Climax}}
{{rpl|Confessional poetry}}
{{rpl|Irony}}
{{rpl|Metaphor}}
{{rpl|Motif}}
{{rpl|Simile}}
{{rpl|Theme}}
 
===Literary movements===
 
{{rpl|Aestheticism}}
{{rpl|Classicism}}
{{rpl|The Enlightenment}}
{{rpl|Modernism}}
{{rpl|Postmodernism}}
{{rpl|Realism}}
{{rpl|Romantic Era}}
{{rpl|Surrealism}}
{{rpl|Stream of consciousness}}
{{rpl|Symbolism}}
 
===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.
 
{{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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[[Ben Jonson]] | [[John Webster]] | [[Andrew Marvell]] | [[John Donne]] | [[Richard Crashaw]] | [[Henry Vaughan]] | [[Thomas Traherne]] | [[George Herbert]] | [[metaphysical poets]] | [[John Dryden]] | [[Alexander Pope]] | [[Samuel Johnson]] | [[Samuel Richardson]] | [[Jane Austen]] | [[Charles Dickens]] | [[Emily Brontë]] | [[Charlotte Brontë]] | [[Anne Brontë]] | [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] | [[Thomas Hardy]] | [[G.K. Chesterton]]
 
[[Anne Bradstreet]] | [[William Cullen Bryant]] | [[Walt Whitman]] | [[Henry David Thoreau]] | [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] | [[Herman Melville]] | [[William Faulkner]] | [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] | [[Ernest Hemingway]] | [[Richard Condon]] | [[Michael Gilbert]] | [[Donald Hamilton]]
 
===French Literature===
 
[[François Villon]] | [[Voltaire]] | [[Pierre Corneille]] | [[Molière]] | [[Jean Racine]]
 
===German-language literature===
 
[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] | [[Friedrich Schiller]] | [[Hölderlin]] | [[Novalis]] | [[Heinrich Heine]] | [[Arthur Schnitzler]] | [[Thomas Mann]] | [[Gottfried Benn]] | [[Heinrich Böll]] | [[Günter Grass]]

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Medieval writers

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Developing Article 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
Stub Hans Christian Andersen: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Rudyard Kipling: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Lewis Carroll: Add brief definition or description
Brüder Grimm: Add brief definition or description

Science-fiction writers

Stub Isaac Asimov: Add brief definition or description
Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
Stub Lois McMaster Bujold: Add brief definition or description
Stub C. J. Cherryh: Add brief definition or description
Stub Arthur C. Clarke: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Robert A. Heinlein: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article 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
Developing Article Jules Verne: Add brief definition or description

New Stub H. G. Wells: Add brief definition or description

Philip K. Dick: 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
Developing Article Henry David Thoreau: Add brief definition or description
Stub Nathaniel Hawthorne: Add brief definition or description
Herman Melville: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Louisa May Alcott: Add brief definition or description
Emily Dickinson: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Edgar Allan Poe: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description

Stub Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description
Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description
William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
Stub Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description
Toni Morrision: Add brief definition or description
Stub Thornton Wilder: Add brief definition or description
Stub Arthur Miller: Add brief definition or description
John Updike: Add brief definition or description
Stub Ezra Pound: Add brief definition or description


English writers

Developing Article Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article William Blake: Add brief definition or description
Charlotte Brontë: Add brief definition or description
Emily Brontë: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Robert Browning: Add brief definition or description
Stub John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description
Stub Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Add brief definition or description
Joseph Conrad: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Donne: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Keats: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Rudyard Kipling: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Milton: Add brief definition or description
George Orwell: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
Stub 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
Developing Article Alexandre Dumas: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
Jean Baptiste Moliere: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Marcel Proust: Add brief definition or description
Jean Racine: Add brief definition or description
Stub George Sand: Add brief definition or description
Stendhal: Add brief definition or description
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Developing Article 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
Developing Article Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description

Stub Theodor Fontane: Add brief definition or description
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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
Developing Article 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

Stub 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]
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Laurence Sterne: Add brief definition or description
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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
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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
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Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Leo Tolstoy: Add brief definition or description
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Scottish writers

Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
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Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description

South African writers

Alan Paton: Add brief definition or description

Spanish writers

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Federico Garcia Lorca: Add brief definition or description
Calderón de la Barca: Add brief definition or description

Yiddish Writers

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George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
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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.

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List of Subsidiary Literature pages

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