Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, and is shaped...

The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader...

include electronic literature. Definitions of literature have varied over time. In Western Europe, prior to the 18th century, literature denoted all books...

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (German: Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur) is a book of...

the Meiji era, Western literature has also had an influence on the development of modern Japanese writers, while Japanese literature has in turn become...

Western romance literature denotes a genre subset of romance literature, sometimes referred to as cowboy romance. Works within this category typically...

The Western Literature Association (WLA) is a non-profit, scholarly association that promotes the study of the diverse literature and cultures of the...

common in the 19th century when women were beginning to make inroads into literature but, it was felt they would not be taken as seriously by readers as male...

Western Ganga literature (Kannada: ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಗಂಗ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) refers to a body of writings created during the rule of the Western Ganga Dynasty, a dynasty that...

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book about Western literature by the American literary critic Harold Bloom, in which the...

travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature...

In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers...

organizational features. These genres are in turn divided into subgenres. Western literature is typically subdivided into the classic three forms of Ancient Greece...

especially in literature, as the Western Chalukya kings encouraged writers in their native language Kannada and in Sanskrit. Knowledge of Western Chalukya...

of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from...

Torah and the Old Testament.[citation needed] In mediaeval and later literature, the term hag, and its relatives in European languages, came to stand...

Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social...

symbols. Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over...

ISBN 978-07-47507-47-5. Articles in Western American Literature on the "Postwestern" Articles in Western American Literature on "Western film and TV" Example: 'WILD...

first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are...

The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved...

Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature. Nearly all of Western...

can be traced to this point in Western literature. Cannibalism comes up with surprise frequency in European literature during the High Middle Ages. The...

works of satire. Ancient Greek literature has had a profound impact on later Greek literature and also western literature at large. In particular, many...

Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic...

mimesis—understood in literature as a form of realism—is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, which opens with a...

Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language...

monk in Dalat, Vietnam Monks chanting at Borobudur, Indonesia In English literature before the mid-20th century, Buddhist monks, particularly from East Asia...

This is a list of writers in the Milanese dialect, including poets and playwrights. Bonvesin da la Riva Fabio Varese Carlo Maria Maggi Carlo Antonio Tanzi...

controversial, both at the time and subsequently. Crusading was integral to Western European culture, with the ideas that shaped behaviour in the Late Middle...