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5 days ago · A literary work can transport us into a fictional, fantastic new world, describe a fleeting feeling, or simply give us a picture of the past through novels, poems, tragedies, epic works, and other genres. Through literature, communication becomes an art, and it can bridge and bond people and cultures of different languages and backgrounds.
1 day ago · English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, are called Old English.
5 days ago · American literature, the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it.
- Literature has existed in the Americas for as long as the people who lived there have been telling stories. Native American cultures have a rich hi...
- Notable authors of American literature include: John Smith, who wrote some of its earliest works; Phillis Wheatley, who was the first Black woman t...
- American literature is often divided into six major periods:
5 days ago · A novel is an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence involving a group of persons in a specific setting. Learn more about the elements, development, and types of novels in this article.
- Anthony Burgess
- A novel is an invented prose narrative of significant length and complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience. Its roots can be traced...
- A novel can accommodate an almost infinite number of elements. Some of the novel's typical elements, though, are the story or plot, the characters,...
- The novel has an extensive range of types, among them being: historical, picaresque, sentimental, Gothic, psychological, novel of manners, epistola...
1 day ago · American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also includes literature produced in languages other than English.
1 day ago · Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point
6 days ago · Early English Prose Fiction, more than 200 works written between 1500 and 1700; English Poetry, over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets, and English Drama, over 3,900 plays in verse and prose, are all sections of Literature Online (LiON).
