Wikipedia:Literature basic topics

This is a list basic topics in the field--topics about which we'd like to have articles soon. Please see the most basic encyclopedia article topics for general instructions on constructing this list, and consult complete list of encyclopedia topics.

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literature

History of Literature[?]

history of the book[?] may not be the right title book

Western canon

the teaching of writing[?]

poetry

prosody

meter

scansion[?]

Constrained writing

poetic formalism

villanelle

sonnet

blank verse[?]

free verse

epic

prose

fiction

non-fiction

biography

prose formalism

allegory

anecdote[?]

point of view

the novel

short story

journalism

the essay[?]

theater

history of theater

literary criticism

metaphor

Basic Procedural Knowledge

how to read a poem

how to read an essay[?]

how to read prose[?]

how to write a story[?]

how to write a poem[?]

effective reasoning in argument writing[?]

Techniques, Conceits and Genre (see talk for some ideas on literary genre)

False document

Frame tale

Techniques for Literary interpretation (applications of Literary theory)

Semiotic literary interpretation

Psychoanalytic literary interpretation

Feminist literary interpretation

Marxist literary interpretation

New historicist literary interpretation[?]

Queer literary interpretation