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Literature portal Literature of North America — of the various nations of North America, and its subregions including the Caribbean and Central America . v
Caribbean literature by country (13 C) A. American literature (32 C, 35 P) Antigua and Barbuda literature (2 C, 2 P) B. Bahamian literature (2 C, 1 P) Barbadian ...
This is a list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because they help define a national identity or provide a common reference point for that country's culture.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...
History of literature by country (49 C, 1 P) Indigenous literature of the Americas (6 C, 2 P) Literary magazines by country (52 C) A. Abkhaz literature (1 C, 3 P)
Literary figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant and William Ellery Channing advocated the creation of a definitively American form of literature with emphasis "on spiritual values and social usefulness." Longfellow wrote that "when we say that the literature of a country is national, we mean that it bears upon it the ...
A national epic is an epic poem or a literary work of epic scope which seeks to or is believed to capture and express the essence or spirit of a particular nation—not necessarily a nation state, but at least an ethnic or linguistic group with aspirations to independence or autonomy.
World literature is used to refer to the total of the world's national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. In the past, it primarily referred to the masterpieces of Western European literature ; however, world literature today is increasingly seen in an international context.