Literature

Series: Literature

French-speaking literature

Writers - Books

Literary history

Antiquity - The Middle Ages - XVIE S. - XVIIE S. - XVIIIE S. - XIXE S. - XXE S. - XXIE S.

Literary forms

Tell News - Novel - Poetry - Theatre

Literary kinds

Biography - Fantastic - Black novel - Whodunnit - - Youth - Experimental - New novel

See too

Litt. not French-speaking person - Literary currents - Literary prices - Writing

Méta

The Literature project - Gate Literature

The word 'littérature' (of Latin subparagraph, letter, then will litteratura « writing », « grammar », « culture ") indicates mainly:

1. The whole of ?uvres written or oral founded on the language and comprising a dimension esthetics (with the difference for example of the?uvres scientists or didactic);
2. activities of production and ofstudy such?uvres.

The literature, in its first direction, is thus one art with whole share. But, it is sometimes difficult to determine the limits of this art when writings are approached , of plays, or of the scenarios which also concern Performing arts.

Generally, the literature will gather the?uvres here having either an aesthetic goal or a particular aesthetic form. This thus excludes the purely philosophical, political or historical writings.

Synopsis 1 Definition 2 Study of the literature 3 Literary kinds and forms 4 Literatures according to languages' 5 History of the Western literature 6 Literary theories 7 Authors and writers 8 Literary meeting 9 Books and?uvres 10 Literary price 11 Literary writing 12 Literature on line 13 Literary reviews on line 131 Internal bonds 132 External bonds

Definition

The word is sometimes used as in a broader direction, to indicate a whole of texts published, as they have or not an aesthetic dimension. It is in the sense that one can speak for example about scientific literature.

The expression gray literature indicate the administrative texts or of research not published being used for the exchanges between professionals of the same discipline. These broad directions are not relevant within the framework of this heading.

There are two types of literature: the major one: that which covers universal subjects; the minor one: that which covers for example regionalistic subjects

Study of the literature

The literature is an object of study to whole share.

Literary kinds and forms

See: Literary kinds and forms

Literatures according to languages'

• French-speaking literature
• NonFrench-speaking literature

History of the Western literature

• Antiquity : and Roman literature.
• The Middle Ages : novels, French tale in verse, jokes, soties, moralities and mysteries.
• XVI^E century : humanism, Poetic pleiad.
• XVII^E century : literature traditional and baroque, "libertinage scholar".
• XVIII^E century : literature of Lights and of Revolution.
• XIX^E century : romanticism, Parnassus, realism and naturalism, symbolism and decadentism.
• XX^E century : existentialism, theatre of the absurd, New novel, committed literature, .
• XXI^E century

Literary theories

• Structuralism
• Formalism
• Semiology and literary semiotics
• Reception and reading

Authors and writers

We distinguish authors and writers. The writers write?uvres of literature while the term authors gather any person having written at least a book, whether it is political, historical, scientific or obviously arts person.

See: writer

Literary meeting

The authors often gathered within meetings to be able to discuss various topics. These meetings regularly involved the creation of associations, academies, of groups, even of specific currents.

See: literary meeting, literary living room

Books and?uvres

To gather different the?uvres from French language, we have the general lists below:

• Books of French language, alphabetically
• Books of French language, by chronological order
• List novels

Literary price

To reward or appoint a particularly talented author or book, several rewards were created according to sensitivities'.

See: literary price

Literary writing

To write with a literary aim corresponds to a specific step which it is important to study.

See: literary writing

Literature on line

Certain works are available on line.

See : Library on line

Literary reviews on line

• Annals of the inheritance : Review of the university of Mostaganem, Algeria.

Internal bonds

• epopee of Gilgamesh, older?uvre literary known

External bonds

• Literary creation on line (Google Directory)
• Éditel, the pioneer (April 1995) of the edition in line of French language.
• Confabulated, all university literary news.
• Women writers and African literatures.
• The Black book, literary forum.
• island in island, great data base on the insular French-speaking literature.
• Biblioweb, more than 400 biographies, as many bibliographies, being the object punctually cards of reading or summaries.
• Contemporary Belgian literature and Belgian literary history.
• The Republic of the Letters, newspaper on line.
• Zazieweb, "community of the E-readers".
• Gruppo04: bonds on the European literatures
• Bonds on authorES
• Literary forum of discussion: The Corner of the Readers
• American Latino literature
• World of the Words, literary gate of poems and quotations.
• Literary universe, enigmas & notes of reading.