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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature:
Literature – prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry.
- See also the Outline of poetry.
What type of thing is literature?
[edit]Literature can be described as all of the following:
- Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
- Written communication (writing) – representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system).[1]
- Subdivision of culture – shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group.
Essence of literature
[edit]Forms of literature
[edit]Oral literary genres
[edit]- Oral poetry –
- Folktale –
- Oral Narrative –
Written literary genres
[edit]- Cordel Literature
- Children's literature –
- Constrained writing –
- Erotic literature –
- Electronic literature – Literary fiction and poetry that uses the capabilities of computers and networks
- Digital poetry –
- Interactive fiction –
- Hypertext fiction – literary fiction written with hypertextual links
- Fan fiction
- Cell phone novel
- Poetry (see that article for an extensive list of subgenres and types)
- Aubade –
- Clerihew –
- Epic –
- Grook – form of short aphoristic poem invented by the Danish poet and scientist Piet Hein, who wrote more than 7,000 of them.
- Haiku – form of short Japanese poetry consisting of three lines.
- Instapoetry
- Tanka – classical Japanese poetry of five lines.
- Lied –
- Limerick – a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem,[3] especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
- Lyric –
- Ode –
- Rhapsody –
- Song –
- Sonnet –
- Speculative poetry –
- Prison literature –
- Rhymed prose –
Non-fiction
[edit]- Autobiography –
- Biography –
- Diaries and Journals –
- Essay –
- Literary criticism –
- Memoir –
- Outdoor literature –
- Self-Help –
- Spiritual autobiography –
- Travel literature –
Fiction genres
[edit]- Manga –
- Adventure novel –
- Airport novels –
- Comedy –
- Parody –
- Satire –
- Crime fiction –
- Erotica –
- Fable –
- Fairy tale –
- Family saga –
- Gothic –
- Historical fiction –
- Inspirational fiction –
- Invasion literature –
- Mystery –
- Philosophical literature –
- Inspirational fiction (religious literature) –
- Psychological fiction –
- Psychological thriller –
- Romance (heroic literature) –
- Romance –
- Historical romance –
- Inspirational romance –
- Paranormal romance –
- Saga –
- Speculative fiction –
- Alternate history –
- Fantasy – (for more details see Fantasy subgenres, fantasy literature)
- Horror –
- Science fiction – (for more details see Science fiction genres and related topics
- Supernatural fiction –
- Sensation novel –
- Slave narrative –
- Thriller –
- Western fiction –
Literature by region and country
[edit]- East Asian literature
- South Asian literature
- Bangladeshi literature
- Bhutanese literature
- Indian literature
- Assamese literature
- Bengali literature
- Bhojpuri language#Bhojpuri literature
- Indian English literature
- Gujarati literature
- Hindi literature
- Kannada literature
- Kashmiri literature
- Konkani literature
- Malayalam literature
- Maithili literature
- Meitei literature
- Marathi literature
- Mizo literature
- Nepali literature
- Odia literature
- Punjabi literature
- Rajasthani literature
- Sanskrit literature
- Sindhi literature
- Tamil literature
- Telugu literature
- Urdu literature
- Maldivian literature
- Nepalese literature
- Pakistani literature
- Sri Lankan literature
- Southeast Asian literature
- Central Asian literature
- Albanian literature
- Andorran literature
- Armenian literature
- Aromanian literature
- Austrian literature
- Azerbaijani literature
- Basque literature
- Belarusian literature
- Belgian literature
- Bosnian literature
- Bulgarian literature
- British literature
- Croatian literature
- Cypriot literature
- Czech literature
- Danish literature
- Dutch literature
- Esperanto literature
- Estonian literature
- Finnish literature
- French literature - also Francophone literature
- Georgian literature
- German literature
- Greek literature
- Hungarian literature
- Icelandic literature
- Irish literature
- Italian literature
- Kazakh literature
- Kosovar literature
- Latvian literature
- Liechtensteiner literature
- Lithuanian literature
- Luxembourg literature
- Macedonian literature
- Maltese literature
- Moldovan literature
- Monégasque literature
- Montenegrin literature
- Norwegian literature
- Polish literature
- Portuguese literature
- Romanian literature
- Russian literature
- Sammarinese literature
- Serbian literature
- Slovak literature
- Slovene literature
- Spanish literature
- Swedish literature
- Swiss literature
- Turkish literature
- Ukrainian literature
- Yiddish literature
Middle East and North Africa
[edit]- Afghan literature
- Algerian literature
- Arabic literature
- Bahraini literature
- Egyptian literature
- Ethiopian literature
- Emirati literature
- Iranian literature
- Iraqi literature
- Israeli literature
- Jordanian literature
- Kuwaiti literature
- Kurdish literature
- Lebanese literature
- Libyan literature
- Moroccan literature
- Oman literature
- Pakistani literature
- Palestinian literature
- Persian literature
- Qatari literature
- Saudi literature
- Syrian literature
- Tunisian literature
- Turkish literature
- Yemeni literature
North and South America
[edit]- North American literature
- Caribbean literature
- Central American literature
- South American literature
Oceania
[edit]Sub-Saharan Africa
[edit]- East African literature
- Burundian literature
- Comorian literature
- Djibouti literature
- Eritrean literature
- Kenyan literature
- Madagascar literature
- Malawian literature
- Mauritian literature
- Mozambique literature
- Réunion literature
- Rwandan literature
- Seychelles literature
- Somalian literature
- Somaliland literature
- South Sudanese literature
- Sudanese literature
- Tanzanian literature
- Ugandan literature
- Zambian literature
- Zimbabwean literature
- Central African literature
- Southern African literature
- West African literature
- Beninese literature
- Burkina Faso literature
- Literature of Cape Verde
- Gambian literature
- Ghanaian literature
- Guinean literature
- Guinea-Bissau literature
- Ivory Coast literature
- Liberian literature
- Malian literature
- Mauritanian literature
- Literature of Niger
- Nigerian literature
- Senegalese literature
- Sierra Leonean literature
- Togo literature
History of literature
[edit]- History of the book
- History of theater
- History of science fiction
- History of ideas
- Intellectual history
Literature by written language
[edit]- Bronze Age literature
- Classical literature
- Medieval literature
- Medieval Dutch literature
- Medieval French literature
- Byzantine literature
- Medieval Bulgarian literature
- Old English literature
- Middle English literature
- Medieval German literature
- Old Irish literature
- Old Norse literature
- Georgian literature
- Catalan literature
- Medieval Welsh literature
- Renaissance literature
- Early Modern literature
- Baroque
- English literature
- French literature
- German literature
- Italian literature
- Spanish literature
- Bengali literature
- Hindi literature
- Kannada literature
- Newari literature
- Telugu literature
- Chinese literature
- Japanese literature
- Korean literature
- Arabic literature
- Persian literature
- Armenian literature
- Turkish literature
Literature by century
[edit]- Ancient literature - until the 6th century CE
- Early medieval literature - 6th through 9th centuries
- 10th century in literature
- 11th century in literature
- 12th century in literature
- 13th century in literature
- 14th century in literature
- 15th century in literature
- 16th century in literature
- 17th century in literature
- 18th century in literature
- 19th century in literature
- 20th century in literature
- 21st century in literature
Literature by year
[edit]General literature concepts
[edit]- Book
- Western canon –
- Teaching of writing:
- Composition –
- Rhetoric –
- Poetry –
- Prosody –
- Meter –
- Scansion –
- Constrained writing –
- Poetics –
- Villanelle –
- Sonnet –
- Sestina –
- Ghazal –
- Ballad –
- Blank verse –
- Free verse –
- Epic poetry –
- Prose –
- Fiction –
- Non-fiction –
- Biography –
- Prose genres –
- Essay –
- Flash prose –
- Hypertext fiction –
- Journalism –
- Novel –
- Novella –
- Short story –
- Theater –
- Rhetoric –
- Basic procedural knowledge
- Poetry analysis –
- effective reasoning in argument writing
- Narratology
- Literary criticism – an application of literary theory
Literary awards
[edit]Persons influential in the field of literature
[edit]Literature creation
[edit]Literature distribution
[edit]See also
[edit]- Index of literature articles
- Lists of books
- English studies
- List of poems
- List of poetry collections
References
[edit]- ^ Peter T. Daniels, "The Study of Writing Systems", in The World's Writing Systems, ed. Bright and Daniels, p. 3
- ^ the arts. CollinsDictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary (2d edition, 1989), s.v. Limerick.
Vaughn, Stanton. Limerick Lyrics. 1900. Retrieved from [1].