CZ:Literature Workgroup

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Literature Core Articles

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Survey articles

• Ancient literature: Add brief definition or description
• Medieval literature: Add brief definition or description
•  American literature: The novels, plays, poetry, and other creative written work of the American people, from Colonial times to the present. ^[e]
•  English literature: Literature of the British isles written in English. ^[e]
•  French literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the French language from the earliest years until the present day ^[e]
•  German literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the German language from the earliest stages (ca. 9^th century) until the present day ^[e]
• Japanese literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Japanese language from the earliest years until the present. ^[e]
• Russian literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Russian language from the earliest years until the present day ^[e]
• Women in literature: Add brief definition or description

Writers

• James Boswell: (1740 - 1795) Scottish author, best known as Samuel Johnson’s biographer, and for the detailed and frank diaries that he kept for much of his life. ^[e]
• Charlotte Bronte: Add brief definition or description
• Emily Bronte: Add brief definition or description
•  Lord Byron: (January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824), George Gordon Byron, English romantic poet, known not only for his poetry, but also his unconventional lifestyle and advocacy for Greek independence. ^[e]
•  Alexandre Dumas: (1806-1876) Writer of iconic French literature, including The Three Musketeers; usually suffixed "père" to distinguish him from his namesake son, always suffixed "fils", who was also a major French writer. ^[e]
•  Thomas Hardy: (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) Author of the Wessex novels and poet ^[e]
• Seamus Heavey: Add brief definition or description
• Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ^[e]
• Ted Hughes: Add brief definition or description
•  Samuel Johnson: (1709-1784) One of the leading figures of English literature's Augustan Age. ^[e]
•  Thomas Mann: (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German author, social critic, and 1929 Nobel Prize Laureate, known for the novels Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and the short story Death in Venice. ^[e]
• Jean Baptiste Moliere: (January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673) French playwright and actor, known for his comedies. ^[e]
• Dame Murdoch: Add brief definition or description
• Eugene O'Neill: (1888-1953) US playwright; wrote Long Day's Journey into Night and won Nobel Prize for literature. ^[e]
• Beatrix Potter: Add brief definition or description
•  Marcel Proust: (1871-1922) French writer, famous for the largely autobiographical novel À la recherche du temps perdu. ^[e]
• Jean Racine: French playwright and poet, 1639—1690. ^[e]
•  George Sand: Add brief definition or description
• Tom Stoppard: Add brief definition or description
•  August Strindberg: Add brief definition or description
•  Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
•  Virgil: Add brief definition or description
•  Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
•  Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description
•  William Butler Yeats: Add brief definition or description
• Emile Zole: Add brief definition or description
• Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Add brief definition or description
• Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
•  Leo Tolstoy: Add brief definition or description
• Matsuo Bashō: Add brief definition or description
•  Yasunari Kawabata: Add brief definition or description
•  Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description
• Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
•  Edgar Allan Poe: Add brief definition or description
•  Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description
•  Walt Whitman: Add brief definition or description
• Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
•  Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description
•  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description
•  Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
• Henrik Ibsen: Add brief definition or description
•  John Milton: Add brief definition or description
• Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description
•  George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
•  Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
•  William Blake: Add brief definition or description
• Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
• Geoffrey Chaucer: Add brief definition or description
•  Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
•  Dante Alighieri: Add brief definition or description
• George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
•  T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
• William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
•  Robert A. Heinlein: Add brief definition or description
•  Sherlock Holmes: Add brief definition or description
•  Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
•  James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
• Jack Kerouac: Add brief definition or description
• Toni Morrison: Add brief definition or description
•  Petrarch: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
•  Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
• Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
• William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description

Literary genre

•  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: Add brief definition or description
•  Novel: Add brief definition or description
•  Romance literature: 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: Add brief definition or description
• Young adult: Add brief definition or description

Literary motifs, styles, and techniques

•  Allegory: Add brief definition or description
•  Anticlimax: Add brief definition or description
• Antihero: 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
• Modernism: Add brief definition or description
•  Postmodernism: Add brief definition or description
• Realism: Add brief definition or description
•  Romanticism: 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

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
• CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Science fiction literature