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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 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 how to become an editor and then add yourself to Category: Literature Editors.
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. 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
- 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
- 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: (1804-76). The male pen-name of the female romantic writer, Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant. [e]
- 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 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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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