Outline of literature
See also: Index of literature articles
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.
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.
Essence of literature
Forms of literature
See also: Literary genre
Oral literary genres
Main article: Oral literature
- Oral poetry –
- Folktale –
- Oral Narrative –
- Oral History –
- Urban legend –
Written literary genres
- 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 –
Non-fiction
- Autobiography –
- Biography –
- Diaries and Journals –
- Essay –
- Literary criticism –
- Memoir –
- Outdoor literature –
- Spiritual autobiography –
- Travel literature –
Fiction genres
- Adventure novel –
- Airport novels –
- Comedy –
- Parody –
- Satire –
- Crime fiction –
- Erotica –
- Fable –
- Fairy tale –
- Family Saga –
- Frame story –
- Gothic –
- Historical fiction –
- Inspirational fiction –
- Invasion literature –
- Mystery –
- Philosophical literature –
- Inspirational fiction (religious literature) –
- Psychological novel –
- 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)
- Epic fantasy –
- Science fantasy –
- Steampunk –
- Urban fantasy –
- Weird fantasy –
- Horror –
- Science fiction – (for more details see Science fiction genres and related topics
- Supernatural fiction –
- Sensation novel –
- Slave narrative –
- Thriller –
- Western fiction –
History of literature
- History of the book
- History of theater
- History of modern literature
- History of science fiction
- History of ideas
- Intellectual history
General literature concepts
See also: Index of literary terms and Glossary of poetry terms
- Literature –
- 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 –
- Literary criticism –
- Rhetoric –
- 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
Persons influential in the field of literature
- List of authors
- Category:Literary critics
- List of writers
See also
References
- ↑ 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 .
External links
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- Yahoo! Directory listing for Literature
- The Internet Public Library listing for Literature
- Nobel Prize in Literature
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