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.
- 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

Main article: 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 –

Non-fiction

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 –
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 –

History of literature

History of 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

Persons influential in the field of literature

Literature Creation

Literature Distribution

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 .

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