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Literary Fund
The Literary Fund (Литературный фонд) is a Russian charitable society founded in Saint Petersburg in 1859 to aid needy writers and scholars, modeled on the British Royal Literary Fund.
Literary genre
A literary genre is a category of literary composition defined by shared conventions of form, content, or style, such as tragedy or science fiction, and studied since Aristotle.
Literary language
Literary language: language used in literary texts, treated in linguistics as a register and in literary linguistics as ordinary language under added constraints such as metre, rhyme, alliteration, and parallelism, differing formally rather than semantically from everyday usage.
Literary magazine
A literary magazine (litmag) is a periodical for serious literature, from little magazines to The New Yorker. Little magazines, small and financially fragile, published roughly 80 percent of canonical modernism, including Ulysses in The Little Review.
Literary modernism
Literary modernism: international experimental literary movement, c. 1880-1950, also called modernisms; defined by break with tradition, formal experimentation, stream of consciousness, and global pluralism, reacting to industrialization and colonialism.
Literary nonsense
Literary nonsense, or nonsense literature, is a genre of writing that playfully subverts language and logic, established by Edward Lear's 1846 A Book of Nonsense.
Literary realism
Literary realism: nineteenth-century fiction movement begun by Balzac and Stendhal in France, aiming at faithful, verisimilar representation of everyday life; distinct from naturalism (Zola's scientific determinism), persisting through modernism and returning in the 21st century.
Literary Research Association
The Literary Research Association (文学研究会) was a Chinese literary society founded in Beijing in January 1921 by twelve writers including Zhou Zuoren, Zheng Zhenduo, and Mao Dun.
Literary theory
Literary theory, also called critical theory, is the body of concepts and methods underlying the interpretation of literature, spanning formalism, structuralism, Marxism, postcolonial, and gender theory.
Literate programming
Literate programming is a programming methodology introduced by Donald Knuth in 1984, in which a program is written as a single document combining code and documentation for human readers.
Literati painting
Literati painting, also called scholar-official painting (士夫画), is the amateur painting tradition of China's educated elite, championed by Su Shi in the Northern Song dynasty.
Literator
Literator, subtitled Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies, is a South African open-access scholarly journal, established in 1980 and published by AOSIS, focusing on South African languages and literatures.
Literatorul
Literatorul was a Romanian literary journal founded in Bucharest in 1880 by the poet Alexandru Macedonski, remembered as the first periodical to promote Symbolism in Romanian literature.
Literatura abolicionista
Literatura abolicionista (abolitionist literature) is a body of 19th-century writing, including Brazilian and Cuban traditions, that denounced slavery through poetry, novels, and journalism.
Literatura afro-brasileira
Literatura afro-brasileira (Afro-Brazilian literature) is Brazilian writing by authors of African descent, defined by five criteria including a point of view identified with Afro-descendance, and reaching back to the eighteenth century.
Literatura colonial brasileira
Literatura colonial brasileira is the body of writing from colonial Brazil, beginning with Pero Vaz de Caminha's 1500 letter and closing at independence in 1822.
Literatura de folhetim
Literatura de folhetim, from the French feuilleton, is Brazilian serialized fiction published in the bottom section of newspaper pages, beginning in 1836 and ancestral to the telenovela.
Literatura de terror brasileira
Brazilian horror literature (Literatura de terror brasileira) is the body of Brazilian fiction meant to produce fear, long marginalized by critics and an organized academic field since the 2010s.
Literatura del yo
Literatura del yo, meaning literature of the self, is a Spanish-language critical label for first-person writing, including autofictions, autobiographies, and intimate diaries, and is especially prominent in Argentine literature.
Literatura infantojuvenil brasileira
Literatura infantojuvenil brasileira is Brazilian children's and young adult literature, founded as an art by Monteiro Lobato's Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo and today one of Brazil's largest publishing segments.
Literatūra ir menas
Literatūra ir menas (Literature and Art) is a Lithuanian cultural weekly magazine published in Vilnius since 1946 by the Lithuanian Writers' Union, covering literature, music, theater, film, and the visual arts.
Literatura periférica
Literatura periférica, or literatura marginal, is a Brazilian literary movement of authors from the urban peripheries, especially São Paulo's, beginning with Ferréz's 2000 novel Capão Pecado.
Literature
Literature: artistic writing, chiefly poetry, drama, and fiction, defined as written work valued for lasting artistic merit. Covers literary history since the 1830s, Goethe's Weltliteratur, Damrosch's circulation-based world literature, comparative literature crises, and modern reading and publishing data.
Literature of Dominica
The literature of Dominica is the body of writing connected to the Caribbean island, beginning in the late 1800s and led by Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey.
Literature of Sierra Leone
The literature of Sierra Leone is the oral and written work of its writers in English, Krio, and indigenous languages, maturing after the 1991 to 2002 civil war.
Literature of the Petrine era
The literature of the Petrine era is Russian writing from about 1700 to the mid-1730s, marked by the civil alphabet reform and the first printed newspaper.
Literature of the Spanish Civil War
The literature of the Spanish Civil War is the fiction, poetry, and testimony written about the 1936 to 1939 war, during the conflict and after.
Literature review
Literature review: a critical written survey and synthesis of existing scholarly work on a topic. Also called narrative review; distinguishes systematic, scoping, meta-analysis types; uses PRISMA reporting standards and documented search strategies.
Literaturen front
Literaturen front (Литературен фронт, "Literary Front") was a Bulgarian literary newspaper serving as the official organ of the Union of Bulgarian Writers from 1944 to 1990, central to socialist realism.
Literaturen glas
Literaturen glas (Литературен глас, "Literary Voice") was a Bulgarian weekly newspaper for literature, art, and public affairs, published in Sofia from 1928 to 1944 under Dimitar B. Mitov.