Social:Outline of literature

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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to literature

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?

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

Oral literary genres

Oral literature

Written literary genres

  • Cordel Literature
  • Children's literature –
  • Constrained writing –
  • Erotic literature –
  • Electronic literature – Literary fiction and poetry that uses the capabilities of computers and networks
  • 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 – 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 –
    • Saj'
      • Maqama
    • Fu (literature)
    • Rayok

Non-fiction

Non-fiction

Fiction genres

Fiction

  • Manga –
  • Adventure novel –
  • Airport novels –
  • Comedy –
  • Parody –
  • Satire –
  • Crime fiction –
    • Detective fiction –
      • Hardboiled –
      • Whodunit –
    • Newgate novel –
  • Erotica –
  • Fable –
  • Fairy tale –
  • Family saga –
  • 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 and country

  • East Asian literature
    • Chinese literature
    • Japanese literature
    • Korean literature
    • Mongolian literature
    • Taiwanese 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
    • Brunei literature
    • Burmese literature
    • Cambodian literature
    • Indonesian literature
    • Laotian literature
    • Malaysian literature
    • Philippine literature
    • Singaporean literature
    • Thai literature
    • Timoran literature
    • Vietnamese literature
  • Central Asian literature
    • Kazakh literature
    • Kyrgyz literature
    • Tajik literature
    • Turkmen literature
    • Uzbek literature

Europe

See also: Western literature
    • Albanian literature
    • Andorran literature
    • Armenian literature
    • Austrian literature
    • Azerbaijani literature
    • Basque literature
    • Belarusian literature
    • Belgian literature
      • Flemish literature
    • Bosnian literature
    • Bulgarian literature
    • British literature
      • Cornish literature
      • English literature
      • Manx literature
      • Jèrriais literature
      • Scottish literature
        • Scots-language literature
        • Scottish Gaelic literature
      • Ulster literature
      • Welsh literature in English
      • Welsh-language literature
    • Croatian literature
    • Cypriot literature
      • Turkish Cypriot literature
    • Czech literature
    • Danish literature
      • Faroese literature
      • Greenlandic literature
    • Dutch literature
      • Frisian literature
    • Esperanto literature
    • Estonian literature
    • Finnish literature
      • Åland literature
    • French literature - also Francophone literature
      • Breton literature
      • Occitan literature
    • Georgian literature
      • Abkhaz literature
      • Chechen literature
      • Ossetian literature
    • German literature
    • Greek literature
    • Hungarian literature
    • Icelandic literature
    • Irish literature
      • Gaelic literature
      • Literature of Northern Ireland
    • Italian literature
      • Friulian literature
      • Sardinian literature
      • Venetian literature
      • Western Lombard 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
      • Aragonese literature
      • Asturian literature
      • Catalan literature
      • Galician-language literature
    • Swedish literature
    • Swiss literature
    • Turkish literature
    • Ukrainian literature
    • Yiddish literature

Middle East and North Africa

    • 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

    • American literature
      • African American literature
      • Native American literature
      • Southern literature
      • Deaf American literature
    • Canadian literature
      • Quebec literature
    • Mexican literature
  • Caribbean literature
    • Cuban literature
    • Dominican Republic literature
    • Guadeloupean Literature
    • Haitian literature
    • Jamaican literature
    • Martinican Literature
    • Puerto Rican literature
    • Barthélemois literature
    • Trinidad and Tobago literature
  • Central American literature
    • Costa Rican literature
    • Salvadoran literature
    • Guatemalan literature
    • Honduran literature
    • Nicaraguan literature
    • Panamanian literature
  • South American literature
    • Argentine literature
    • Bolivian literature
    • Brazilian literature
    • Chilean literature
    • Colombian literature
    • Ecuadorean literature
    • Guyanese literature
    • Paraguayan literature
    • Peruvian literature
    • Uruguayan literature
    • Venezuelan literature

Oceania

  • Oceanian literature
    • Australian literature
    • Fijian literature
    • Kiribati literature
    • Marshall Islands literature
    • Micronesian literature
    • Nauran literature
    • New Zealand literature
    • Papua New Guinean literature
    • Palau literature
    • Samoan literature
    • Solomon Islands literature
    • Tongan literature
    • Tuvalan literature
    • Vanuatu literature

Sub-saharan Africa

See also: African literature
  • 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
    • Angolan literature
    • Cameroon literature
    • Literature of Central African Republic
    • Chadian literature
    • Congolese literature
    • Equatorial Guinea literature
    • Gabon literature
    • São Tomé and Príncipe literature
  • Southern African literature
    • Botswanan literature
    • Swazi literature
    • Lesotho literature
    • Namibian literature
    • South African literature
      • Afrikaans literature
  • West African literature
    • Beninese literature
    • Burkina Faso literature
    • Literature of Cape Verde
    • Gambian literature
    • Ghanan literature
    • Guinean literature
    • Guinea-Bissau literature
    • Ivory Coast literature
    • Liberian literature
    • Malian literature
    • Mauritanian literature
    • Literature of Niger
    • Nigerian literature
      • Yoruba literature
    • Senegalese literature
    • Sierra Leone literature
    • Togo literature

History of literature

History of literature

Literature by written language

  • Bronze Age literature
    • Sumerian
    • Ancient Egyptian
    • Akkadian



  • 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



    • Arabic literature
    • Persian literature
    • Armenian literature
    • Turkish literature


Literature by century

  • 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

  • List of years in literature
  • Table of years in literature

General literature concepts

  • Book
  • Western canon –
  • Teaching of writing:
  • Poetry –
    • Prosody –
    • Meter –
    • Scansion –
    • Constrained writing –
  • Poetics –
    • Villanelle –
    • Sonnet –
    • Sestina –
    • Ghazal –
    • Ballad –
    • Blank verse –
    • Free verse –
    • Epic poetry –
  • Prose –
  • Prose genres –
  • Theater –
    • History of theater –
  • Rhetoric –
    • Metaphor –
    • Metonymy –
    • Symbol –
    • Allegory –
  • Basic procedural knowledge
    • Poetry analysis –
    • effective reasoning in argument writing
  • Narratology
  • 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
  • List of writers
    • List of women writers

Literature creation

Literature distribution

See also

  • Index of literature articles
  • Lists of books
  • English studies
  • List of poems
  • List of poetry collections

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].

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