List of basic literary topics
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Below is a list of basic topics in literature -- topics which will help the beginner become familiar with the field of literature. For a comprehensive list, see List of literary topics.
- literature
- History of literature
- history of the book
- Western canon
- the teaching of writing: composition, rhetoric
- prose genres
- :novel
- :short story
- :journalism
- :essay
- Basic procedural knowledge
- :poetry analysis
- :effective reasoning in argument writing
- Techniques and conceits
- : False document
- : Frame tale
- : anecdote
- : point of view
- Varieties of literary criticism (applications of Literary theory)
- : Marxist literary criticism
- : Semiotic literary interpretation
- : Psychoanalytic literary interpretation
- : Feminist literary interpretation
- : New historicism
- : Queer literary interpretation
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