Outline of literature

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to 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[]

Forms of literature[]

See also: Literary genre

Oral literary genres[]

Oral literature

  • Oral poetry –
  • 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 – form of short Japanese poetry consisting of three lines.
    • 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[]

Non-fiction

  • Autobiography –
  • Biography –
  • Diaries and Journals –
  • Essay –
  • Literary criticism –
  • Memoir –
  • Outdoor literature –
  • Self-Help –
  • Spiritual autobiography –
  • Travel literature –

Fiction genres[]

Fiction

Inspirational fiction (religious literature) –

Literature by region and country[]

Asia[]

Europe[]

See also: Western literature

Middle East and North Africa[]

North and South America[]

Oceania[]

Sub-saharan Africa[]

See also: African literature

History of literature[]

History of literature

Literature by period[]

Literature by era[]

Literature by century[]

Literature by year[]

General literature concepts[]

See also: Index of literary terms and Glossary of poetry terms
  • Book
  • Western canon –
  • Teaching of writing:
  • Poetry –
  • 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
  • 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[]

Persons influential in the field of literature[]

Literature creation[]

Literature distribution[]

  • Publishing
  • Library
  • Bookselling
  • Magazine

See also[]

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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