The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature:
What is literature?
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).
- 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.
Essence of literature
Forms of literature
Oral literary genres
Written literary genres
Non-fiction
Fiction genres
- Inspirational fiction (religious literature) –
History of literature
General literature concepts
Literary awards
Persons influential in the field of literature
See also
References
- ^ Peter T. Daniels, "The Study of Writing Systems", in The World's Writing Systems, ed. Bright and Daniels, p. 3
- ^ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/arts Entry on The Free Dictionary provided by Collins English Dictionary
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary (2d edition, 1989), s.v. Limerick.
Vaughn, Stanton. Limerick Lyrics. 1900. Retrieved from [1].
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