Outline of literature

Outline of literature
Literature
Major forms

Novel
Poem
Drama

Short story
Novella
Genres

Comedy

Drama

Epic

Erotic

Nonsense

Lyric

Mythopoeia

Romance

Satire

Tragedy

Tragicomedy
Media

Performance (play)
Book
Techniques

Prose
Verse
History and lists

Outline of literature

Glossary of terms

History (modern)

Books

Writers

Literary/ Poetry awards

Discussion

Criticism
Theory

Sociology
Magazines
Literature portal

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature:

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What is 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?

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 poetry
Epic poetry
Legend
Mythology
Ballad
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 sub-genres 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

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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
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
Detective fiction

Hardboiled
Whodunit
Newgate novel
Erotica
Fable
Fairy tale
Family Saga
Frame story
Gothic
Southern Gothic

Historical fiction
Inspirational fiction

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Invasion literature
Mystery
Philosophical literature
Inspirational fiction (religious literature)

Psychological novel
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

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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

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
Metaphor
Metonymy

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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

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 (http:/ / www. collinsdictionary. com/ dictionary/ english/ 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 (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=CBJAAAAAYAAJ& dq=limerick&
pg=PR3-IA3).

External links
This outline displayed as a mindmap (http://wikimindmap.com/viewmap.php?wiki=en.wikipedia.org&
topic=Outline+of+literature&Submit=Search), at wikimindmap.com
Yahoo! Directory listing for Literature (http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/)
The Internet Public Library listing for Literature (http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.00.00/)
Nobel Prize in Literature (http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/literature/literature.html)

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