CZ:Literature Workgroup
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CZ:Core_Articles
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.
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. 9th 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
Ancient writers
- Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. [e]
- Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]
Medieval writers
- Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. [e]
- Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. [e]
- Petrarch: (1304–74) Italian poet, humanist and essayist, and one of the most important intellectual figures of the early Renaissance. [e]
Children's and young adult literature
- Dr. Seuss: (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-91) Extremely popular American writer of children's books, including books designed to teach reading. [e]
- Rudyard Kipling: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. [e]
Science-fiction writers
- Isaac Asimov: (1920-92) American chemist and prolific author, especially of science fiction. [e]
- Arthur C. Clarke: (1917-2008) British author of science fiction. [e]
- Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. [e]
- Ursula Le Guin: (born October 21, 1929) Science-fiction author whose works address themes from sociology and anthropology. [e]
- Larry Niven: Add brief definition or description
- Jack Vance: (1916 – 2013) American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries who achieved cult-like status. [e]
- Jules Verne: (1828-1905) French author and science-fiction pioneer, some of whose novels involved travel through outer space and under water before technology had made these possible, and whose work has been widely translated and made into a number of films. [e]
- H. G. Wells: (1866 – 1946) British author in many fields, including politics, who is perhaps best remembered for his seminal works of science-fiction. [e]
American writers
- Washington Irving: (1783-1859) American writer, considered the first American man of letters, best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. [e]
- James Fenimore Cooper: (1789-1851) The first major American novelist, most famous for his adventuresome Leather-Stocking Tales set in the American frontier. [e]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-82) American poet, essayist, and lecturer; leading exponent of New England transcendentalism. [e]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 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
- 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
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: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. [e]
- 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: Add brief definition or description
- 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
- Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
German writers
- Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Mann: 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
Irish writers
- James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
- William Butler Yeats: 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
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description
South African writers
Unsorted by nationality
- Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
- Henrik Ibsen: 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
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: Add brief definition or description
- Novel: 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: 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
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- 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