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Literature is any collection of written work. The term is also used more narrowly for writings considered an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems...

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Russian literature is the literature of Russia, its émigrés, and Russian-language literature. Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English...

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional...

related to Literature of Indonesia. Indonesian literature is a term grouping various genres of South-East Asian literature. Indonesian literature can refer...

Occitan literature (referred to in older texts as Provençal literature) is a body of texts written in Occitan, mostly in the south of France. It was the...

Kazakh literature is defined as 'the body of literature, both oral and written, produced in the Kazakh language by the Kazakh people of Central Asia'....

Ghanaian literature is literature produced by authors from Ghana or in the Ghanaian diaspora. It starts with a long oral tradition, was influenced heavily...

Modern Iranian literatures include Persian literature, Ossetian literature, Kurdish literature, Pashto literature, and Balochi literature, among others...

The written Abkhaz literature appeared relatively recently in the beginning of the 20th century although Abkhaz oral tradition is quite rich. Abkhaz share...

Gambian literature consists of the oral and written literary tradition of the people of the Gambia. Oral literature, including the traditional griots...

Ethiopian literature dates from Ancient Ethiopian literature (around 300 AD) up until modern Ethiopian literature. Ancient Ethiopian literature starts with...

reason, has been a recurring aspect of world literature. Sentimentalism includes a variety of aspects in literature, such as sentimental poetry, the sentimental...

The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually...

Rwandan literature is literature both oral and written in Kinyarwanda, English, or French, particularly by citizens of Rwanda. Rwanda's literary history...

is a multilingual country, Belgian literature is often treated as a branch of French literature or Dutch literature. Some writing also exists in the regional...

A literature review is an overview of previously published works on a particular topic. The term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a...

Burkinabé literature grew out of oral tradition, which remains important. In 1934, during French occupation, Dim-Dolobsom Ouedraogo published his Maximes...

Surinamese literature refers to the literature which is considered to belong to both the oral traditions as well as Surinamese written literature or people...

Uyghur or Uighur literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Uyghur language, a Turkic language used primarily by the Uyghur people...

Libyan literature has its roots in Antiquity, but contemporary Libyan writing draws on a variety of influences. The Arab Renaissance (Al-Nahda) of the...

was influenced by the Republic of Venice as well, mainly though trade, literature and romanesque architecture. Serbia has five cultural monuments inscribed...

literature is the literature of the modern country of Mali. The ruler of the Songhai Empire at the time, Askia the Great was a patron of literature.[1]...

Latvian literature began to develop in the 18th century. Latvian secular literature began with Gotthard Friedrich Stender who produced didactic tales...

The UNESCO's City of Literature programme is a part of the wider Creative Cities Network. The list consists of 53 cities across 6 continents that have...

Algerian literature has been influenced by many cultures, including the ancient Romans, Arabs, French, Spanish, and Berbers. The dominant languages in...

Israeli literature is literature written by Israelis. Most works classed as Israeli literature are written in the Hebrew language, although some Israeli...

Galician-language literature is the literature written in Galician. The earliest works in Galician language are from the early 13th-century trovadorismo...

Jèrriais literature is literature in Jèrriais, the Norman dialect of Jersey in the Channel Islands. The literary tradition in Jersey is traced back to...

Egyptian literature traces its beginnings to ancient Egypt and is some of the earliest known literature. Ancient Egyptians were the first to develop written...

Senegalese literature is written or literary work (novels, poetry, plays and films) which has been produced by writers born in the West African state....

Kenyan literature describes literature which comes from Kenya. Kenya has a long literary tradition, both oral and written; primarily in English and Swahili...

Eritrean literature in the Tigrinya language dates, as far as is known, from the late 19th century but Ge'ez writings have been found in the 4th century...

Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, and intertextuality...

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy to authors for outstanding contributions in...

Panamanian literature comprises the whole of literary works written in Panama. The first literature relating to Panama can be dated to 1535, with a modern...

Insects have appeared in literature from classical times to the present day, an aspect of their role in culture more generally. Insects represent both...

literature was primarily oral. Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs. The majority of the oral literature in...

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section or chapter thereof. The epigraph...

depict suicide in literature. Suicide, the act of deliberately killing oneself, is a prominent action in many important works of literature. Authors use the...

Santali literature (Santali: ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱥᱟᱶᱦᱮᱫ) refers to the literary works written in the Santali language, primarily spoken by the Santal people of India...

Nigerian literature is a literary writing in Nigeria often by her citizens. It encompasses writers in a number of languages spoken in Nigeria including...

"The Literature of Exhaustion" is a 1967 essay by the American novelist John Barth sometimes considered to be the manifesto of postmodernism. The essay...

Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its...

The term erotic literature refers to fictional or factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic, or sexual relationships) intended to sexually...

Cameroonian literature includes literature in French, English and indigenous languages. Colonial-era writers such as Louis-Marie Pouka and Sankie Maimo...

Welsh literature is any literature originating from Wales or by Welsh writers: Welsh-language literature for literature in the Welsh language Welsh literature...

Aragonese literature of Spain includes Aragonese-language poetry, prose and novels. The Glosas Emilianenses (11th century) are the first written testimony...

Doki Doki Literature Club! (DDLC) is a 2017 visual novel video game developed by Team Salvato for personal computers and mobile phones. The story follows...

The medieval genre of speculum literature, popular from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries, was inspired by the urge to encompass encyclopedic...

The literature of Vanuatu, understood in the strict sense of written literature, began in the 1960s. What existed in precolonial Vanuatu was – and still...

The literature of Luxembourg is little known beyond the country's borders, partly because Luxembourg authors write in one or more of the three official...

Nath literature is an important and distinct branch of medieval Bengali literature. It is deeply connected to the spiritual practices, yogic traditions...

The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam), historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr...

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Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, and is shaped...

Banjara Literature is primarily found in the Devanagari script today. It is regarded as the literature of Banjara linguistics. Cultural consciousness and...

Zoroastrian literature is the corpus of literary texts produced within the religious tradition of Zoroastrianism. These texts span the languages of Avestan...

Asian literature is the literature produced in Asia. East Asian literature Chinese literature Japanese literature Korean literature Taiwanese literature Vietnamese...

World literature is used to refer to the world's total national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin...

Literature of Flanders or Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, historically a region comprising parts of present-day Belgium, France and the...

Most literature in Botswana is written in English, though many works are published in Setswana and a small minority are published in other native languages...

Incest is an important thematic element and plot device in literature, with famous early examples such as Sophocles' classic Oedipus Rex, a tragedy in...

English literature is a form of literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more...

Street literature is any of several different types of publication sold on the streets, at fairs and other public gatherings, by travelling hawkers, pedlars...

Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. The writing can...

Clandestine literature, also called "underground literature", refers to a type of editorial and publishing process that involves self-publishing works...

Wisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near East. It consists of statements by sages and the wise that offer teachings about...

British literature is a body of literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. This...

Kamrupi literature is the literature written in the modern Kamrupi dialects of Assamese language. The story of Behula and Chand Sadagar appears to be common...

Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature...

German literature (German: Deutschsprachige Literatur) comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written...

Cordel literature (from the Portuguese term, literatura de cordel, literally "string literature", Portuguese pronunciation: [koʁˈdɛw]) are popular and...

Bhojpuri literature (Kaithi: 𑂦𑂷𑂔𑂣𑂳𑂩𑂲 𑂮𑂰𑂯𑂱𑂞𑂹𑂨; Devanagari: भोजपुरी साहित्य; IAST: Bhojpurī Sāhitya) includes literature written in Bhojpuri...

period. Heinrich Wölfflin was the first to transfer the term Baroque to literature. The key concepts of Baroque literary theory, such as "conceit" (concetto)...

Frisian literature is works written in the Frisian languages, including that of West Frisian spoken in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands, from...

studies scholars, modern Theosophy had a certain influence on contemporary literature, particularly in forms of genre fiction such as fantasy and science fiction...

Shetland literature is literature written in Shetland, Scotland, or by writers from Shetland. The literature is often written in Shetland dialect or its...

Young adult literature (YA) is literature written for readers aged 12 to 18. It may include themes found in adult fiction, such as family dysfunction...

Ergodic literature is a mode of textual organization in which nontrivial effort is required for the reader to traverse the text, beyond ordinary eye movement...

Fool's literature was a literary tradition in medieval Europe in which the stock character of a fool was used as an allegory to satirize the contemporary...

Chuvash literature (Chuvash: Чӑваш литератури) is literature written in the Chuvash language, regardless of the ethnic origin of the authors or the place...

Venezuelan literature is the literature written by Venezuelans or in Venezuela, ranging from indigenous pre-Hispanic myths to oral or written works in...

consensus.› Scar literature or literature of the wounded (Chinese: 伤痕文学; pinyin: shānghén wénxué) is a genre of Chinese literature which emerged in the...

The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. Throughout history, many...

Mozarabic literature (or Mozarab literature) is the literature of the Mozarabs, Christians living under Islamic rule in Spain and their Arabized descendants...

Romani literature or Roma literature is literature by Romani people. It is composed of both written and oral literature. Authors may most likely reside...

Dictator literature (abbreviated as dic-lit or dictator lit) is the body of literature written by or attributed to dictators. Although some dictator literature...

Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire corpus of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. The term typically refers to literature...

Guyanese literature covers works including novels, poetry, plays and others written by people born or strongly-affiliated with Guyana. Formerly British...

Taiwanese literature refers to the literature written by Taiwanese in any language ever used in Taiwan, including Japanese, Taiwanese Han (Hokkien, Hakka...

in 1950 Satyapal Chandra has broken traditional stereotype in English literature by writing a number of English bestsellers of various genres Rasheed-Un-Nisa...

Igbo literature encompasses both oral and written works of fiction and nonfiction created by the Igbo people in the Igbo language. This literary tradition...

Sudanese literature consists of both oral as well as written works of fiction and nonfiction that were created during the cultural history of today's Republic...

centuries to the present). The emergence of writing (and thus Old Russian literature) is dated to around the year 1000, after Old Church Slavonic was introduced...

Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary...

What Is Literature? (French: Qu'est-ce que la littérature?), also published as Literature and Existentialism, is an essay by French philosopher and novelist...

Martinican literature is primarily written in French or Creole and draws upon influences from African, French and Indigenous traditions, as well as from...

Chicano literature is an aspect of Mexican-American literature that emerged from the cultural consciousness developed in the Chicano Movement. Chicano...

Sumerian literature constitutes the earliest known corpus of recorded literature, including the religious writings and other traditional stories maintained...

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the British colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition...

American Catholic literature emerged in the early 1900s as its own genre. Catholic literature is not exclusively literature written by Catholic authors...

Baháʼí literature includes the books, letters, and recorded public talks of the Baháʼí Faith's founders, the clarifying letters of Shoghi Effendi, the...

Modern literature may refer to: Modernist literature, the literary form of modernism Xiandai wenxue, a Taiwanese literature journal in publication from...

Syriac literature is literature in the Syriac language. It is a tradition going back to the Late Antiquity. It is strongly associated with Syriac Christianity...

literature (Urdu: ادبیات دكهنى, “Adbiyāt-i-Dakhni Urdū”) is the literature produced in the Deccani language. The earliest forms of Deccani literature...

The National Literary Awards define independent or "indie" literature as "books published outside mainstream publishing."[1][permanent dead link] Such...

Generative literature is poetry or fiction that is automatically generated, often using computers. It is a genre of electronic literature, and also related...

literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica. Postcolonial literature often...

Islamic literature is literature written by Muslim people, influenced by an Islamic cultural perspective, or literature that portrays Islam. It can be...

literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates...

Source literature (understood as printed texts) is a kind of information source. It might, for example, be cited and used as sources in academic writings...

kingdom are disputed. Most of what is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged, and there is...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. The literature of Myanmar (Burmese: မြန်မာစာပေ) spans over a millennium. The Burmese...

Scientific literature encompasses a vast body of academic papers that spans various disciplines within the natural and social sciences. It primarily consists...

Chilean literature refers to all written or literary work produced in Chile or by Chilean writers. The literature of Chile is usually written in Spanish...

Literature of Moldova comprises the literature of the principality of Moldavia, the later trans-Prut Moldavia, Bessarabia, the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet...

Hebrew literature consists of ancient, medieval, and modern writings in the Hebrew language. It is one of the primary forms of Jewish literature, though...

literature or literature of Afghanistan refers to the literature produced in modern-day Afghanistan. Influenced by Central and South Asian literature...

storytelling traditions of its peoples dating back much earlier. Lao literature refers to the written productions of Laotian peoples, its émigrés, and...

Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community over centuries, in relation...

Zimbabwean literature is literature produced by authors from Zimbabwe or in the Zimbabwean Diaspora. The tradition of literature starts with a long oral...

Black literature is literature created by or for Black people. For more, see: African literature African-American literature Afro-Brazilian literature Black...

Hekhalot literature (sometimes transliterated as Heichalot), from the Hebrew word for "Palaces," relates to visions of entering heaven alive. The genre...

Nagpuri literature refers to literature in the Nagpuri language, the language of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha. The earliest literature started in...

Misery literature, also called misery lit, misery porn, misery memoirs and trauma porn, is a literary genre dwelling on trauma, mental and physical abuse...

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic...

The literature of Madagascar encompasses the oral and written literary arts of the Malagasy people. A wide range of oral literary traditions have developed...

Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that...

list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because...

New Zealand literature is literature, both oral and written, produced by the people of New Zealand. It often deals with New Zealand themes, people or places...

Breton literature may refer to literature in the Breton language (Brezhoneg) or the broader literary tradition of Brittany in the three other main languages...

In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of "sensibility" with its emphasis on women and children...

In literature, polyphony (Russian: полифония) is a feature of narrative, which includes a diversity of simultaneous points of view and voices. Caryl Emerson...

Mexican literature is one of the most prolific and influential of Spanish-language literatures along with those of Spain and Argentina. Found among the...

Transgender literature is a collective term used to designate the literary production that addresses, has been written by or portrays people of diverse...

Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Eighth Schedule...

The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major...

In literature and other artistic media, a mode is an unspecific critical term usually designating a broad but identifiable kind of literary method, mood...

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians...

Telugu literature includes poetry, short stories, novels, plays, and other works composed in Telugu. There is some indication that Telugu literature dates...

Experimental literature is a genre of literature that is generally "difficult to define with any sort of precision." It experiments with the conventions...

Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the East Semitic Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria...

Italian literature is written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in other languages...

Literature of Réunion is the literature of persons linked to the island of Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar...

susceptible to variation. Influential epics that have shaped Western literature and culture include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; Virgil's Aeneid; and the...

Moroccan literature are the written and oral works of Moroccan culture. These works have been produced and shared by people who lived in Morocco and the...

Literature Wales, formerly named the Academi, is the Welsh national literature promotion agency and society of writers, existing to promote Welsh-language...

Venetian literature is the corpus of literature in Venetian, the vernacular language of the region roughly corresponding to Venice, from the 12th century...

Philippine literature is literature associated with the Philippines from prehistory, through its colonial legacies, and on to the present. According to...

Vietnamese literature (Vietnamese: Văn học Việt Nam) is the literature, both oral and written, created largely by the Vietnamese. Early Vietnamese literature has...

Edo literature includes both written and oral works in the Edo language by the Edo people of Nigeria. It has its origins in precolonial times and has evolved...

poetry 13th century in literature 15th century in literature List of works of fiction set in the 14th century List of years in literature John Flood (8 September...

Grey literature (or gray literature) is material and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and...

movement in literature and part of the Futurism art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It made its official literature debut with...

the Movement were not anti-modernity but they were opposed to modernist literature, which was reflected in the Englishness of their poetry. The Movement...

identifies it as a postmodern literature akin to surrealism and covering much the same ground as slipstream literature. Transrealism may be considered...

Gaucho literature, also known in Spanish as género gauchesco ("gauchoesque" genre) was a literary movement purporting to use the language of the gauchos...

literature of England is literature written in what is now England, or by English writers. It consists mainly of English literature - i.e. literature...

Estonian literature (Estonian: eesti kirjandus) is literature written in the Estonian language (c. 1,100,000 speakers) The oldest records of written Estonian...

"Index to Brown, Driver and Briggs Hebrew Lexicon". Journal of Biblical Literature. 97 (1): 108. doi:10.2307/3265844. ISSN 0021-9231. JSTOR 3265844. Suchard...

Literature and Dogma: An Essay towards a better Apprehension of the Bible is a work of religious and literary criticism by Matthew Arnold, first published...

In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential...

Romance literature may refer to: Chivalric romance, a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance...

Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the...

Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947...

Malaysian literature consists of literature produced in the Malay Peninsula until 1963 and in Malaysia thereafter. Malaysian literature is typically written...

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820 by King George IV to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity...

Epiphany in literature refers generally to a visionary moment when a character has a sudden insight or realization that changes their understanding of...

Feminist literature is fiction, nonfiction, drama, or poetry, which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing, and defending equal civil, political...

Musar literature is didactic Jewish ethical literature which describes virtues and vices and the path towards character improvement. This literature gives...

Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance....

Migrant literature, sometimes written by migrants themselves, tells stories of immigration. Although any experience of migration would qualify an author...

support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Bengali literature (Bengali: বাংলা সাহিত্য, romanized: Bangla Shahittô) denotes the body...

Tongzhi literature (Chinese: 同志文學; pinyin: Tóngzhì wénxué) is a form of LGBT literature originating in Taiwan, with influences from mainland China, Hong...

Phoenician–Punic literature is literature written in Phoenician, the language of the ancient civilization of Phoenicia, or in the Punic language that developed...

Vernacular literature is literature written in the vernacular—the speech of the "common people". In the European tradition, this effectively means literature not...

Native American literature encompasses both oral and written works produced by Native Americans in the United States (distinct from Indigenous First Nations...

The literature of Andorra is part of Catalan literature, that is, of literature in the Catalan language. It is the literature represented by the writings...

Chinese American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent. The genre began in the 19th century...

classics traditionally refers to the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics may also...

Mennonite literature emerged in the mid-to-late 20th century as both a literary movement and a distinct genre. Mennonite literature refers to literary...

societies, including the Babylonian and Judaic, produced apocalyptic literature and mythology which dealt with the end of the world and human society...

When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms...

Oracular literature, also called orphic or prophetic literature, positions the poet as a medium between humanity and another world, sometimes defined as...

The history of Kyrgyz literature dates to the early 19th century, from the poems of Moldo Nïyaz to stories written in "Old Kyrgyz". It is an important...

Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history.[citation needed] Subgenres of...

19th-century French literature Realism (arts) Verismo (literature) Campbell, Donna M. (8 March 2017). "Naturalism in American Literature". Washington State...

Nepali literature (Nepali: नेपाली साहित्य) refers to literature written in the Nepali language. The Nepali language has been the national language of Nepal...

Alternative literature (or alt-lit) is a literary movement strongly influenced by internet culture and online publishing. It includes various forms of...

She criticized the "fallen woman" theme, which was common in Victorian literature. During the second half of the 1850s, Jewsbury was entrusted with editing...

Style Manual for the Society of Biblical Literature recommends the use of the term deuterocanonical literature instead of apocrypha in academic writing...

Slovak literature is the literature of Slovakia. The first monuments of literature from territory now included in present-day Slovakia are from the time...

Jain literature (Sanskrit: जैन साहित्य) refers to the literature of the Jain religion. It is a vast and ancient literary tradition, which was initially...

letters". datagenetics.com. Retrieved 28 September 2012. Look up heterogram (literature) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eric Chaikin (1 February 2004), "Renaming...

Polynesian) literature developed in a unique geographical environment that allowed the development of a unique literature to thrive. Oceanian literature was heavily...

in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. There are four Vedas: the Rigveda...

Literary fiction—also called serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, or sometimes just literature—encompasses fiction that is more character-driven...

Trade literature is a general term including advertising, customer technical communications, and catalogues. A trade magazine, or trade rag, also called...

Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text...

Georgian literature (Georgian: ქართული ლიტერატურა) refers to a long literary heritage, with some of the oldest surviving texts in Georgian language dating...

philosophers and spiritualists. The subject has also made an ongoing impact on literature and the arts. The word alchemy comes from Old French alkimie, used in...

The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader...

Francophone literature is literature written in the French language. The existence of a plurality of literatures in the French language has been recognised...

Canadian literature is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in the literary traditions of France and Britain...

Swahili literature is literature written in the Swahili language, particularly by Swahili people of the East African coast and the neighboring islands...

Somali literature is the literature used by the ethnic Somalis of Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Due to the Somali people's passionate...

Christian Latin literature has a long history with its foundations being laid during the 4th and 5th centuries. They included the church fathers Augustine...

Asphalt literature is a term that was used in Germany to refer to "metropolitan literature that is no longer rooted in its homeland". The term was first...

Hoysala literature is the large body of literature in the Kannada and Sanskrit languages produced by the Hoysala Kingdom (1025–1343) in what is now southern...

Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and...

Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies...

Czech literature can refer to literature written in Czech, in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia, earlier the Lands of the Bohemian Crown), or...

Haitian literature has been closely intertwined with the political life of Haiti. Haitian intellectuals turned to African traditions, France, Latin America...

Christian literature is the literary aspect of Christian media, and it constitutes a huge body of extremely varied writing. The Christian genre spans a...

The law and literature movement focuses on connections between law and literature. This field has roots in two developments in the intellectual history...

Rital Literature is a category in Belgian literature indicating literary works written by Italian immigrants in Belgium. The original term in French is...

The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, is an international festival of literature held annually in Cheltenham, England. It is...

term is used particularly in the study of legends, folk tales and oral literature for works that have features in common either because they derive from...

Brazilian literature is the literature written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, including works written prior to the country's independence...

English literature Gujarati literature Hindi literature Kannada literature Kashmiri literature Konkani literature Malayalam literature Maithili literature Meitei...

Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century...

according to classification codes derived from the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL). The JEL is published quarterly by the American Economic Association...

A Bachelor of Literature (Chinese: 文学学士; B.Lit.) is one of thirteen statutory undergraduate academic degrees in China. The basic duration of study is four...

originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld...

form once dead. Striped hyenas are often referred to in Middle Eastern literature and folklore, typically as symbols of treachery and stupidity. In the...

critic of English literature. A prevailing mode of literary theory in the 20th century (one focused upon the language used by literature) drew heavily upon...

Afrikaans literature is literature written in Afrikaans. Afrikaans is the daughter language of 17th-century Dutch and is spoken by the majority of people...

French literature (French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by French citizens; it...

Scandinavian literature, also referred to as Nordic literature, comprises literature written in the languages of the Nordic countries of Northern Europe...

/ɡiːˈɛz/; ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z [ˈɡɨʕ(ɨ)z] , and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language. The language...

"The Prevention of Literature" is an essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell. The essay is concerned with freedom of thought and expression...

Prizes covered five fields: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace, specified in Nobel's will. A sixth prize, the Prize in Economic...

The Motif-Index of Folk-Literature is a six volume catalogue of motifs, granular elements of folklore, composed by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1932–1936...

Balochi literature (Balochi: بلۏچی ادب or بلۏچی لبزانک) is literature written in the Balochi languages. The main Balochi literature is found in poetry...

social and psychological context, plays an important role in consuming literature and fiction in particular. This concept is known as narrative empathy...

Finnish literature refers to literature written in Finland. During the European early Middle Ages, the earliest text in a Finnic language is the unique...

Mozambican literature refers to the body of written works produced in Mozambique or by Mozambican authors This literature has been shaped by the country's...

Irish literature is recognised as the third oldest literature tradition of Europe, behind only Latin literature and Greek literature: literature has been...

Rajasthani literature is a tradition in Indian literature dating to the 2nd millennium, which includes literature written in the Rajasthani language. An...

Cambodian literature (Khmer: អក្សរសាស្ត្រខ្មែរ, Âksârsastr Khmêr [ʔaʔsɒːsah kʰmaɛ]), also Khmer literature, has a very ancient origin. Like most Southeast...

Ancient Jewish literature includes Biblical literature and rabbinic literature. Medieval Jewish literature includes not only rabbinic literature but also ethical...

Acadian literature is literature produced in Acadia, or considered as such. The colonial period was characterized by a scarcity of textual production,...

post-modern and experimental literature after World War 2, attributes of vignettes resurfaced in popularity. Post-modern literature rejects the conventional...

Portuguese literature, in its broader sense, is literature written in the Portuguese language, from the Portuguese-speaking world. It can refer to Lusophone...

Scholarships on children's literature includes professional organizations, dedicated publications, and university courses. Children's literature portal List of children's...

Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...

Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English...

Salvadoran writers Salvadoran literature is primary literature written in El Salvador. Salvadoran literature is primary written in Spanish and in other...

collector 15th century in poetry 14th century in literature 16th century in literature List of years in literature "History of Guildhall Library". City of London...

Saraiki literature is the body of literary works written in the Saraiki language, spoken primarily in South Punjab, Pakistan. The language, partly codified...

Greek literature dates back to ancient Greek literature, beginning around 800 BC, and extends to modern Greek literature today. Ancient Greek literature was...

subcontinent since ancient times. Mentions of Skanda in the Sanskrit literature data back to fifth century BCE and the mythology relating to Kartikeya...

Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1688), which...

However, all variants endorse, at least to a certain degree, the idea that literature ... is fundamentally entwined with the psyche." Psychoanalytic criticism...

Among the first published works of Fijian literature, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, were Vivekanand Sharma (in Hindi), Raymond Pillai's and Subramani's...

Uzbek literature refers to the literature produced and developed in the Republic of Uzbekistan with additional literary works contributed by the Afghanistan...

as Neo-Latin. "Good Latin" in philology is known as "classical" Latin literature. The term refers to the canonical relevance of literary works written...

also belonging to the literature of their specific languages, the literature of Singapore is viewed as a distinct body of literature portraying various aspects...

social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are...

Monster literature is a genre of literature that combines good and evil and intends to evoke a sensation of horror and terror in its readers by presenting...

1897 – 8 July 1962) was a French intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included...

Irish literature is literature written in the Irish, Latin, English and Scots (Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland. The earliest recorded...

juxtaposed or combined to achieve a grotesque effect. As derived from literature and theatre, "burlesque" was used, and is still used, in music to indicate...

The traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican literature extend back to the oldest-attested forms of early writing in the Mesoamerican region, which date from...

non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois...

Literature of Kashmir has a long history, the oldest texts having been composed in the Sanskrit language. Early names include Patanjali, the author of...

arts reputation, and island status all contribute to its significant literature. Many fiction and non-fiction authors call Tasmania home, and many acclaimed...

Stargate literature comprises the novels and short stories in the Stargate franchise fictional universe (based on either the original Stargate film or...

early twentieth century as a reaction against Romanticist theories of literature, which centered on the artist and individual creative genius, once again...

Eschatological literature is a form of literature that can go hand-in-hand with dystopian literature. This is a form of literature that specifically...

East German literature is the literature produced in East Germany from the time of the Soviet occupation in 1945, until the end of the communist government...

Intelligence literature, sometimes referred to as espionage nonfiction, is a genre of non-fiction or historical literature, written in any language, that...

to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature. Successors of pulps include paperback books, such as hardboiled detective...

Pali literature is concerned mainly with Theravada Buddhism, of which Pali (IAST: pāl̤i) is the traditional language. The earliest and most important Pali...

philosophy that emphasises instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design. In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism...

Bulgarian literature Croatian literature Czech literature Kashubian literature Macedonian literature Polish literature Montenegrin literature Russian literature...

Albanian literature stretches back to the Middle Ages and comprises those literary texts and works written in Albanian. It may also refer to literature written...

Solomon's Temple, with substantial Christian interpolations. Rabbinical literature commentary equates the Baʿal-zəvuv of Ekron as lord of the "fly". The...

1230) 13th century in poetry 12th century in literature 14th century in literature List of years in literature Keith Devlin (2012). The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's...

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, or MEDLARS Online) is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information...

This is an article about literature in Quebec. During this period, the society of New France was being built with great difficulty. The French merchants...

Puduchery), is one of the eleven classical languages of India. Malayalam literature comprises those literary texts written in Malayalam, a South-Dravidian...

Literature in the Esperanto language began before the first official publication in Esperanto in 1887: the language's creator, L. L. Zamenhof, translated...

Testament. It says that the Book of Enoch, (extra-biblical Jewish theological literature, dated around 200 B.C.) is full of demonology and reference to fallen...

Hungarian literature is the body of written works primarily produced in Hungarian, and may also include works written in other languages (mostly Latin)...

visions such as those found in Ezekiel 1 or in the hekhalot literature ("palaces" literature), concerning stories of ascents to the heavenly palaces and...

Austrian literature (German: Österreichische Literatur) is mostly written in German, and is closely connected with German literature. From the 19th century...

Macedonian literature (Macedonian: македонска книжевност) begins with the Ohrid Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire (nowadays North Macedonia)[citation...

Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While it tends to be dominated by...

the United States, a literature survey is (typically) a sophomore-level class introducing students to major works of literature of a given culture, language...

"Blue Literature Series") is a twelve episode Japanese anime series featuring adaptations inspired by six short stories from Japanese literature. The six...

"πόλεμος". A Greek-English Lexicon. on Perseus. polemic, or polemical literature, or polemics (rhetoric). britannica.com. Archived from the original on...

Caribbean literature is the literature of the various territories of the Caribbean region. Literature in English from the former British West Indies may...

Belarusian literature was formed from the common basis of Kievan Rus' literary tradition, which also gave rise to Ukrainian literature and Russian literature. A...

Aromanian literature (Aromanian: Literatura armãneascã or rrãmãneascã) is literature written in the Aromanian language. The first authors to write in Aromanian...

their works as well. Gothic aesthetics continued to be used in Victorian literature in novels by Charles Dickens and the Brontë sisters, as well as in works...

Christian devotional literature (also called devotionals or Christian living literature) is religious writing that Christian individuals read for their...

development of Bolivian literature. Many talents have had to emigrate or were silenced by the internal conflict. In recent years the literature of Bolivia has...

Hausa literature is any work written in the Hausa language. It includes poetry, prose, songwriting, music, and drama. Hausa literature includes folk literature...

Yugoslav literature may refer to: Bosnian literature Croatian literature, medieval and modern culture of the Croats Macedonian literature, begins with...

Romanian literature (Romanian: Literatura română) is the entirety of literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer...

Medical literature is the scientific literature of medicine: articles in journals and texts in books devoted to the field of medicine. Many references...

Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers. It includes works in English, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Brythonic, French,...

works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a wide influence on popular culture and literature, especially in...

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (born 1941) "for having created new poetic expressions within...

Tumbuka literature is the body of written and oral works composed in the Tumbuka language, a Bantu language spoken primarily in Malawi, Zambia and parts...

Committed literature (French: littérature engagée) can be defined as an approach of an author, poet, novelist, playwright or composer who commits their...

Celtic literature is the body of literature written in one of the Celtic languages, or else it may popularly refer to literature written in other languages...

Ecuadorian literature has been characterized for essentially being costumbrista and, in general, closely linked to events that are exclusively national...

organisations. The novella as a literary genre began developing in the Italian literature of the early Renaissance, principally by Giovanni Boccaccio, author of...

Sikh literature refers to the writings of the Sikhs. Traditional Sikh literature can be classified into various genres, such as the Vār, Sākhī, Rahitnāmā...

Lesbian literature is a subgenre of literature addressing lesbian themes. It includes poetry, plays, and fiction addressing lesbian characters; non-fiction...

The time that can be called contemporary in Turkish literature falls in the period between the middle of the 20th century and the first years of the new...

Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people. It is best known for the sagas written in medieval times, starting...

An argument in literature is a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work. It is often appended to the beginning of each...

common in the 19th century when women were beginning to make inroads into literature but it was felt they would not be taken as seriously by readers as female...

Gay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the gay community which involves characters, plot lines, and/or themes portraying...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang (born 1970) "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical...

Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). In the Victorian era, the novel became the leading literary...

Thai literature is the literature of the Thai people, almost exclusively written in the Thai language (although different scripts other than Thai may be...

it came into general use in German chess literature and was subsequently adopted in Russian chess literature. Descriptive notation, based on abbreviated...

literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing...

Invasion literature (also the invasion novel, invasion fiction or the future war genre) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871...

1996) Stoehr, Ingo Roland (2001). German literature of the twentieth century. History of German Literature. Vol. 10. Boydell & Brewer. p. 529. ISBN 978-1-57113-157-7...

derivative tractate of scripture or the Talmud is the equivalent in Hebrew literature to a chapter of the Christian Bible. The distribution of tracts predates...

Colombian literature, as an expression of the culture of Colombia, is heterogeneous due to the coexistence of Spanish, African and Native American heritages...

of art and literature throughout the second half of the twentieth century. There is a wide range of ways–including dance, film, literature, music, and...

literature holds a larger market share. Romance fiction had an estimated $1.375 billion share in the US book market in 2007. Inspirational literature/religious...

Youth literature may refer to: Children's and young adult literature Young adult literature Children's literature This disambiguation page lists articles...

extensive corpus of surviving literature in Nahuatl dating as far back as the 16th century may be considered unique. Nahuatl literature encompasses a diverse...

The literature of Mississippi, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Mississippi has a literary tradition that arose from a diverse...

This page details the books featuring the fictional character Hercule Poirot, created by Agatha Christie. The Poirot books are still under copyright in...

literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in...

Catalan literature (or Valencian literature) is the name conventionally used to refer to literature written in the Catalan language. The focus of this...

is now modern-day Greece, the people were first called "Egyptians" in literature and from which the word "Gypsy" is derived. Discriminatory laws were passed...

The sociology of literature is a subfield of the sociology of culture. It studies the social production of literature and its social implications. A notable...

George Steiner on the heteronyms Pseudonymous writing is not rare in literature or philosophy (Kierkegaard provides a celebrated instance). 'Heteronyms'...

early horror story. Werewolf stories were popular in medieval French literature. One of Marie de France's twelve lais is a werewolf story titled "Bisclavret"...

is disputed by other religious scholars. Isaiah's narrative in Islamic literature can be divided into three sections. The first establishes Isaiah as a...

Malaysia Department of Persian Language & Literature; Shahrekord University; Department of Persian Language & Literature; slamic Azad University, retrieved 25...

Punk literature (also called punk lit and, rarely, punklit) is literature related to the punk subculture. The attitude and ideologies of punk rock gave...

Uruguayan literature has a long and eventful history. Literature properly speaking starts in Uruguay with the country-flavoured poetry of Bartolomé Hidalgo...

The literature of Florida includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and is considered part of the American regionalSouthern literature. Florida's literary...

This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable...

Palestinian literature refers to the Arabic language novels, short stories and poems produced by Palestinians. Forming part of the broader genre of Arabic...

into direct conflict and to do so again and again throughout the story." Literature portal Archenemy – Main enemy of someone Boss (video games) – Significant...

Marathi literature is the body of literature of Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra and written in the Devanagari...

Maltese literature is any literature originating from Malta or by Maltese writers or literature written in the Maltese language. This article will give...

Literature in Iran encompasses a variety of literary traditions in the various languages used in Iran. Modern literatures of Iran include Persian literature...

Turkmen literature (Turkmen: Türkmen edebiýaty) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Old Oghuz Turkic and Turkmen languages. The Turkmens...

A literature circle, or literature club, is equivalent for young people of an adult book club, but with greater structure, expectation and rigor. The aim...

The term children's literature criticism includes both generalist discussions of the relationship between children's literature and literary theory and...

African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...

a self-perpetuating cultural ethos. More broadly defined, Confederate literature included nationalistic poetry, songs, and certain memoirs. It was stylistically...

fictional character and the main antagonist of the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! (DDLC). The character was created by Dan Salvato and voiced by Jillian...

Texas literature is literature about the history and culture of Texas. It ranges broadly in literary genres and dates from the time of the first European...

This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian...

Cypriot literature covers literature from Cyprus found mainly in Greek, Turkish, English and/or other languages, including French. The modern Cypriot Greek...

Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, which is spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada...

Notes to Literature is nonfiction two volume work by social and cultural theorist Theodor W. Adorno. The two volumes are a collection of short essays on...

Argentine literature, i.e. the set of literary works produced by writers who originated from Argentina, is one of the most prolific, relevant and influential...

The Taiwan Literature Awards is a nationally recognized literary award in Taiwan. Initially founded by the Council for Cultural Affairs of the Republic...

Proletarian literature refers here to the literature created by left-wing writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat. Though the Encyclopædia Britannica...

Bulgarian literature is literature written by Bulgarians or residents of Bulgaria, or written in the Bulgarian language; usually the latter is the defining...

Dogri literature refers to the body of written and oral works in the Dogri language, predominantly spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India...

sugar industry. British Guyanese are notable for their contributions to literature and music. At the time of the 2001 UK Census there were 20,872 Guyanese-born...

that in whose power a man is" (quoted in Brogan). The emphasis on Gothic literature, on the sublime in general, and the poet as spokesman of a nation's consciousness...

excellence. This is marked break from the biblical and Second Temple literature in which she plays a far more ancillary role. In light of parallels between...

Goan literature is the literature pertaining to the state of Goa, India. Goa has a population of around 1.4 million and an area of 3,700 sq. kilometres...

Montenegrin literature may refer to: Literature of Montenegro, the entire (historical and modern) corpus of literature created on the territory covered...

Newar literature includes those literary texts written in the Newar language. The Newar language of Nepal has the fourth oldest literature tradition among...

ordinary real world. The term speculative fiction has been used for works of literature, film, television, drama, video games, radio, and hybrid media. The umbrella...

HarperCollins. OCLC 1120411289. "Examples and Definition of Hubris in Literature". Literary Devices. 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-04-23. "hubris". Merriam-Webster...

Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language. The earliest surviving texts are in verse and date from the 14th century. There are...

The literature of Louisiana, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include Kate Chopin, Alcée Fortier, Ernest...

known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer...

Outdoor literature is a literature genre about or involving the outdoors. Outdoor literature encompasses several different subgenres including exploration...

Piedmontese literature refers to the corpus of texts written in the Piedmontese language, a Romance language derived from Latin, from the Middle Ages to...

distinctive styles of Jacobean architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature which characterized that period. The word "Jacobean" is derived from Neo-Latin...

Mongolian literature is literature written in Mongolia and/or in the Mongolian language. It was greatly influenced by and evolved from its nomadic oral...

Resistance literature includes but is not limited to fiction, cinema, drama, poetry, visual art, and song, reflecting the many forms of political resistance...

in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and...

Spanish literature is literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the...

Yoruba literature is the spoken and written literature of the Yoruba people, one of the largest ethno-linguistic groups in Nigeria and the rest of Africa...

Chicana literature is a form of literature that has emerged from the Chicana Feminist movement. It aims to redefine Chicana archetypes, in an effort to...

Philosophy and literature involves the literary treatment of philosophers and philosophical themes (the literature of philosophy), and the philosophical...

Early Swedish literature designates Swedish literature written between approximately 1200–1500 AD. As Swedish evolved from Old Norse in the 13th century...

Buddhist literature is the body of written texts produced within Buddhists communities that convey Buddhist teachings, philosophy, moral guidance, and...

hero's iconography and myths for their literature and art under the name Hercules. In later Western art and literature and in popular culture, Hercules is...

Matron literature (also known as hen lit) is a literary genre which focuses on older female characters as protagonists. The genre has increased in popularity...

Konkani literature is literature in the Konkani language, mostly produced in three scripts: Roman, Devanagari and Kannada. Konkani literature is eligible...

Serbian literature (Serbian Cyrillic: Српска књижевност, Srpska književnost), refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia and all other lands...

Tatar literature (Tatar: татар әдәбияты) consists of literature in the Tatar language, a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia...

Iraqi literature or Mesopotamian literature dates back to Sumerian times, which constitutes the earliest known corpus of recorded literature, including...

2008, the College Board announced that four AP courses—French Literature, Latin Literature, Computer Science AB, and Italian Language and Culture—would...

other symbols. Persian literature comprises written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half...

(2018-06-21). "Newspapers, gossip and coffeehouse culture". Discovering Literature: Restoration & 18th century. British Library. Archived from the original...

interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and...

Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland...

In works of art, literature, and narrative, a symbol is a concrete element like an object, character, image, situation, or action that suggests or hints...

worldwide. Jehovah's Witnesses are known for their evangelism, distributing literature such as The Watchtower and Awake!, and for refusing military service and...

translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl...

worldview has a direct bearing upon its presence in various forms of literature, either directly upon the city itself, or having the city in a kind of...

The term Ukrainian literature (Ukrainian: Українська література) is normally used to describe works of literature written in the Ukrainian language. In...

Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the...

Javanese literature is, generally speaking, literature from Java and, more specifically, from areas where Javanese is spoken. However, similar with other...

The literature of Tennessee in the United States includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, ranging from Independence through to the present. This literature...

for more than 200 years and it continues to have an influence on modern literature and fiction. According to the traditional view of Thrall and Hibbard (first...

Lithuanian literature (Lithuanian: lietuvių literatūra) concerns the art of written works created by Lithuanians throughout their history. A wealth of...

Tamil literature includes a collection of literary works that have come from a tradition spanning more than two thousand years. The oldest extant works...

language has a well-documented history with literary works like Sangam literature, consisting of over 2,000 poems. Tamil script evolved from Tamil Brahmi...

Medieval German literature refers to the literature of Medieval Germany. It can be subdivided into two main periods: Old High German literature (750–1050)...

from sexual advances of men. Homoerotic themes are introduced to Latin literature during a period of increasing Greek influence on Roman culture in the...

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African...

the oldest corpus of Egyptian literature. Along with Sumerian literature, it is considered the world's earliest literature. Writing in ancient Egypt—both...

may see errors in display. Ancient Meitei literature, also termed as Old Manipuri literature, is literature written in the Old Manipuri language from...

Welsh writing in English, (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers. The term...

aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, with the emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion...

Siswati literature refers to written works produced in the Siswati language by speakers primarily based in Eswatini and parts of South Africa, especially...

Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...

Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement...

sciences. The IMRAD structure has proved successful because it facilitates literature review, allowing readers to navigate articles more quickly to locate material...

Language and Literature is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of stylistics. The journal's editor is Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield)...

then morphed into multifarious aphorisms of philosophy, morality, and literature. Currently, an aphorism is generally understood to be a concise and eloquent...

Electric Literature is an American literary magazine. Founded by Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum in 2009 as a print quarterly journal, Electric Literature transitioned...

flood narrative, are also understood as having been influenced by older literature, with parallels in the older Epic of Gilgamesh. By studying late-13th-century...

In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. They can be...

The Academy of Sciences and Literature (German: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany...

Plutarch and Pausanias. Aside from this narrative deposit in ancient Greek literature, pictorial representations of gods, heroes, and mythic episodes featured...

Northeast Literature (Chinese: 东北文学, Dongbei Wenxue) was a literary journal published in Manchuria by the Changchun Progressive Writers Assembly between...

between the third to the tenth centuries (see Middle Persian literature). New Persian literature was first recorded in the ninth century, after the Muslim...

1968) was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic...

Philatelic literature is written material relating to philately, primarily information about postage stamps and postal history. Philatelic literature is held...

Meitei literature, also known as Manipuri literature, is literature written in the Meitei language of Manipur. An ancient institution of learning, the...

Sufi literature consists of works in various languages that express and advocate the ideas of Sufism. Sufism had an important influence on medieval literature...

Jamaican literature is internationally renowned, with the island of Jamaica being the home or birthplace of many important authors. One of the most distinctive...

Punjabi literature, specifically literary works written in the Punjabi language, is characteristic of the historical Punjab of present-day Pakistan and...

Byzantine literature is the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the Byzantine Empire or outside its borders. It was marked by a linguistic...

Slovene literature is the literature written in Slovene. It spans all literary genres; historical fiction has been a recurring strand within Slovene fiction...

education system consequently increased literary activity. While much of the literature written in Basque remains targeted at the native audience, some works...

Kurdish literature (ئەدەبی کوردی) is literature written in the Kurdish languages. Literary Kurdish works have been written in several Kurdish varieties...

Heian literature (平安文学, Heian-bungaku) or Chūko literature (中古文学, chūko-bungaku; "mid-ancient literature") refers to Japanese literature of the Heian period...

statement being "what the work says about the subject". Some common themes in literature are love, war, revenge, betrayal, grace, isolation, parenthood, forgiveness...

The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers,...

Honduran literature describes the literature birthed out of Honduras. The literary history of Honduras is intersects with aspects of political and socioeconomic...

epigraphically for about one and a half millennia. Old Kannada Rashtrakuta literature flourished during the 8th-10th centuries. Kannada has an unbroken literary...

web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta...

ongoing sexual revolution, drawing themes and influence from experimental literature of Beat Generation authors such as William S. Burroughs, and art movements...

Australasian literature is an umbrella term for the literary production of Australasian countries: Australian literature New Zealand literature This disambiguation...

for the Man Booker Prize and was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University in 2013. He won a Believer Book Award for Remainder...

Tupi names, such as Moacir, Iara, Iracema and Jandaia. It has a rich literature, which includes catechisms, poems and plays. The names Old Tupi or Classical...

war, found throughout mythology and folklore, studied in fields such as literature, sociology, psychology, anthropology, film studies, cultural studies,...

considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of Western literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife...

Cover Reveal of Jennifer Croft's "The Extinction of Irena Rey"". Electric Literature. July 7, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2024. "The Morningside by Téa Obreht"...

Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan...

Theory of Literature is a book on literary scholarship by René Wellek, of the structuralist Prague school, and Austin Warren, a self-described "old New...

Chadian literature has suffered greatly from the turmoil which has engulfed the country, economical and political. As with many cultures, literature in Chad...

Ossetian (or Ossetic) literature is expressed in the Ossetian language, an Iranian language of the Caucasus. The Ossetian literature is comparatively young...

of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective...

Turkish literature (Turkish: Türk edebiyatı, Türk yazını) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Turkish language. The Ottoman form of Turkish...

retrieved from the ever-growing Project Gutenberg database. Novels portal Literature portal Society portal The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time Detective fiction...

Whereas romance and realism had traditionally been contradictory modes of literature, they were brought together in sensation fiction. The sensation novelists...

Braj literature is literature in Braj Bhasha, one of the Western Hindi languages developed as a literary language during the 15th century, Bhakti Movement...

Shilha literature or Tashelhiyt literature is the literature of the Shilha language, a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco. Shilha, like other...

Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest...

Welsh-language literature (Welsh: Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg) has been produced continuously since the divergence of Welsh as a distinct language from Brittonic...

completely imaginary realms and creatures. The genre's roots lie in fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century onward, it has expanded into various...

In literature, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions as...

(Japanese: ゆり) is a fictional character in the 2017 video game Doki Doki Literature Club! (DDLC). She is a shy girl and someone romantically interested in...

onward, the movement spread around the globe, impacting the visual arts, literature, theatre, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as...

Cornish: Mater Brythain; Breton: Afer Breizh-Veur) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and...

antiquity. Associated with great change in art, architecture, politics, literature, exploration and technology, the Renaissance was first centered in the...

Zulu literature refers to the body of written and oral literary works produced in the Zulu language, a Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa...

Qatari literature traces its origins back to the 19th century. Originally, written poetry was the most common form of expression, but poetry later fell...

performance that requires immense memory power and an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody, originated and was specially cultivated among Telugu poets...

Guatemalan literature is literature written by Guatemalan authors, whether in the indigenous languages present in the country or in Spanish. Though there...

French, Italian, German and Romansh form the four branches which make up a literature of Switzerland. The original Swiss Confederation, from its foundation...

LGBTQ literature in Brazil encompasses literature written by Brazilian authors that involves plots or characters that are part of or related to sexual...

as well as indigenous religious frameworks. Thematically, Afrofuturist literature delves into revisionist or alternative history making, while galvanizing...

Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary...

describe weird fiction not as a genre of fiction, but rather as a mode of literature (i.e. a style or mood) usually appearing within the horror fiction genre...

Bhutanese Literature is written in various languages including Nepali language and Dzongkha in Bhutan. It dates back to the 1950s. Earlier, Bhutanese literature...

Cuban literature is the literature written in Cuba or outside the island by Cubans in Spanish language. It began to find its voice in the early 19th century...

the "defilement" refers to interracial sex rather than rape. Midrashic literature contains a series of proposed explanations of the Bible by rabbis. It...

Early Irish literature, is commonly dated from the 4th or 6th to the 15th century, a period during which modern literature in Irish began to emerge. It...

Azerbaijani literature (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan ədəbiyyatı, آذربایجان ادبیاتی) is written in Azerbaijani, a Turkic language, which is the official state...

Khalifa. In recent years, the number of younger poets influenced by western literature are rising, most writing in free verse or prose poetry, and often including...

activity that was important enough to be identified as "modern Greek literature" was done in the Cretan dialect during the 16th century in Venetian Crete...

Mizo literature is the literature written in Mizo ṭawng, the principal language of the Mizo peoples, which has both written and oral traditions. It has...

Croatian literature refers to literary works attributed to the medieval and modern culture of the Croats, Croatia, and Croatian. Besides the modern language...

version would add the sarpasattra and ashvamedha material from Brahmanical literature, introduce the name Mahābhārata, and identify Vyasa as the work's author...

Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism. Some...

phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. A B C D E F G H I L M N...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai (born 1954) "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that...

Odia literature is literature written in the Odia language, mostly from the Indian state of Odisha. The modern Odia language is mostly formed from Tadbhava...

human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech (oral literature), literature, theatre, dance, music and song, comics, journalism, animation...

The term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty...

Efik literature (Efik: N̄wed ikọ Efịk) is literature spoken or written in the Efik language, particularly by Efik people or speakers of the Efik language...

Persian) for the Hindustani language, and gave shape to it in the Islamic literature. He also wrote a war ballad in Punjabi. In addition, he spoke Arabic and...