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Overview of and topical guide to literature

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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: outline of poetry.


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Contents





  • 1 What type of thing is literature?


  • 2 Essence of literature


  • 3 Forms of literature

    • 3.1 Oral literary genres


    • 3.2 Written literary genres

      • 3.2.1 Non-fiction


      • 3.2.2 Fiction genres




  • 4 Literature by region


  • 5 History of literature

    • 5.1 Literature by period

      • 5.1.1 Literature by era


      • 5.1.2 Literature by century


      • 5.1.3 Literature by year




  • 6 General literature concepts


  • 7 Literary awards


  • 8 Persons influential in the field of literature


  • 9 Literature creation


  • 10 Literature distribution


  • 11 See also


  • 12 References


  • 13 External links




What type of thing is literature?


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.
    • One of the arts – imaginative, creative, or nonscientific branch of knowledge, especially as studied academically.[2]


Essence of literature



  • Composition –


  • World literature –


Forms of literature


See also: Literary genre


Oral literary genres


Oral literature



  • Oral poetry –

    • Epic poetry –

      • Legend –


      • Mythology –


      • Ballad –



  • Folktale –


  • Oral Narrative –

    • Oral History –


    • Urban legend –



Written literary genres


Main articles: Poetry and Prose


  • Children's literature –


  • Constrained writing –


  • Erotic literature –


  • 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 over 7,000 of them.


    • Haiku –


    • 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 –

    • Saj'
      • Maqama

    • Fu (literature)

    • Rayok



Non-fiction


Non-fiction



  • Autobiography –


  • Biography –


  • Diaries and Journals –


  • Essay –


  • Literary criticism –


  • Memoir –


  • Outdoor literature –


  • Self-Help –


  • Spiritual autobiography –


  • Travel literature –


Fiction genres


Fiction



  • Adventure novel –


  • Airport novels –


  • Comedy –


  • Parody –


  • Satire –


  • Crime fiction –

    • Detective fiction –

      • Hardboiled –


      • Whodunit –



    • Newgate novel –



  • Erotica –


  • Fable –


  • Fairy tale –


  • Family saga –


  • Frame story –


  • Gothic –

    • Southern Gothic –


  • Historical fiction –


  • Inspirational fiction –


  • Invasion literature –


  • Mystery –


  • Philosophical literature –


Inspirational fiction (religious literature) –

  • Psychological fiction –


  • Psychological thriller –


  • Romance (heroic literature) –


  • Romance –

    • Historical romance –

      • Regency romance –

    • Inspirational romance –


    • Paranormal romance –



  • Saga –


  • Speculative fiction –

    • Alternate history –


    • Fantasy – (for more details see Fantasy subgenres, fantasy literature)

      • Epic fantasy –


      • Science fantasy –


      • Steampunk –


      • Urban fantasy –


      • Weird fantasy –



    • Horror –

      • Lovecraftian horror –


      • Weird menace –



    • Science fiction – (for more details see Science fiction genres and related topics

      • Cyberpunk –


      • Hard science fiction –


      • Space opera –



    • Supernatural fiction –



  • Sensation novel –


  • Slave narrative –


  • Thriller –

    • Conspiracy fiction –


    • Legal thriller –


    • Spy fiction/Political thriller –


    • Techno-thriller –



  • Western fiction –


Literature by region


  • African literature

  • Asian literature

  • European literature

  • Latin American literature

  • North American literature

  • Oceanic literature


History of literature


History of literature


  • History of the book

  • History of theater

  • History of modern literature

  • History of science fiction

  • History of ideas

  • Intellectual history


Literature by period



Literature by era



  • Ancient literature

    • Bronze Age literature
      • Sumerian

      • Ancient Egyptian

      • Akkadian



    • Classical era literature
      • Avestan

      • Chinese

      • Greek

      • Hebrew

      • Latin

      • Pali

      • Prakrit

      • Sanskrit

      • Syriac

      • Tamil

      • Japanese




  • Early medieval literature
    • Matter of Rome

    • Matter of France

    • Matter of Britain

    • Armenian literature

    • Byzantine literature

    • Georgian literature

    • Kannada literature

    • Middle Persian literature

    • Old Turkic



  • Medieval literature
    • Medieval Bulgarian literature

    • Old English literature

    • Middle English literature

    • Arabic literature

    • Persian literature

    • Armenian literature

    • Byzantine literature

    • Medieval Catalan literature

    • Medieval Dutch literature

    • Medieval French literature

    • Georgian literature

    • Medieval German literature

    • Bengali literature

    • Indian literature

    • Old Irish literature

    • High medieval literature

    • Korean literature

    • Kamakura-Muromachi literature

    • Nepal Bhasa literature

    • Old Norse literature

    • Bylina

    • Telugu literature

    • Turkish literature

    • Medieval Welsh literature


  • Renaissance literature


  • Early Modern literature
    • Renaissance

    • Baroque


  • Modern literature


Literature by century


  • 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


  • List of years in literature

  • Table of years in literature


General literature concepts


See also: Index of literary terms and Glossary of poetry terms

  • 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 –


    • Journalism –


    • Novel –


    • Novella –


    • Short story –



  • Theater –

    • History of theater –


  • Rhetoric –

    • Metaphor –


    • Metonymy –


    • Symbol –


    • Allegory –


  • Basic procedural knowledge

    • Poetry analysis –

    • effective reasoning in argument writing



  • Narratology

    • False document –


    • Frame tale –


    • Anecdote –


    • In Medias Res –


    • Point of view –



  • Literary criticism – an application of literary theory

    • Marxist literary criticism –


    • Semiotic literary interpretation –


    • Psychoanalytic literary interpretation –


    • Feminist literary interpretation –


    • New historicism –


    • Queer literary interpretation –



Literary awards


  • List of literary awards

  • List of poetry awards


Persons influential in the field of literature


  • List of authors

  • Category:Literary critics


  • List of writers
    • List of women writers


Literature creation


  • Author

  • Publisher

  • Editor

  • Copy editor


Literature distribution


  • Publishing

  • Library

  • Bookselling

  • Magazine


See also



  • Lists of books

  • English studies


References




  1. ^ Peter T. Daniels, "The Study of Writing Systems", in The World's Writing Systems, ed. Bright and Daniels, p. 3


  2. ^ the arts. CollinsDictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition. Retrieved October 25, 2012.


  3. ^ Oxford English Dictionary (2d edition, 1989), s.v. Limerick.
    Vaughn, Stanton. Limerick Lyrics. 1900. Retrieved from [1].




External links



  • The Internet Public Library listing for Literature

  • Nobel Prize in Literature








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