Literature

Articles about books, writers, literary movements and criticism.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese (Literary Chinese): overview, history and characteristics

Classical Latin

Classical Latin: form, history, and legacy

Courtly love

Courtly love: medieval ideals of chivalry, praise, and ennobling devotion

Creative writing

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Crime fiction

Crime fiction: forms, history, and enduring appeal

Critic

Criticism

Criticism: evaluation, critique, and negative comment

Daisy Miller

Death Eater

Death of a Hero

Decorum

Decorum: Principle of Appropriateness in Rhetoric, Literature, and Theatre

Dirge

Dirge: definition, history, characteristics, and cultural role

Draco Malfoy

Drama

Drama (theatrical and narrative forms)

Dubliners

Dubliners: James Joyce’s collection of short stories

Dune (novel)

Dune (novel): overview, themes and legacy

Dying of the Light

Dying of the Light (novel)

Editorial

English literature

English literature: history, forms, and global development

English poetry

Epistle

Epistolary novel

Essay

Essay — definition, forms, history, and uses

Eulalia!

Eulalia! — a Redwall novel by Brian Jacques

Eulogy

Exaggeration

Example

Falstaff

Falstaff: Shakespeare’s Boisterous Knight and His Cultural Legacy

Fiction

Fiction: Definition, Forms, History and Uses

First they came...

“First they came...” — the poem by Martin Niemöller

First-person narrative

Flatland

Flatland: Abbott's Novella on Two Dimensions and Social Satire

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing (literary device)

Fred and George Weasley

Free verse

French literature

Funeral Blues

Funeral Blues — 'Stop all the clocks' by W. H. Auden

Gamebook

Ghazal

Ghazal: form, history, and cultural significance

Ghostwriter

Ghostwriter: professional writer who creates work credited to others

Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust: overview, parts, themes, and significance

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind (novel)

Goodnight Moon

Goosebumps

Goosebumps — R. L. Stine's children's horror series and its legacy

Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction: origins, themes, and cultural influence

Gothic language

Gothic language (East Germanic)

Grawp