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# Literature

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The word literature in a general sense means the collection of all written word about a subject.

For example, the literature of stamp collecting includes:

- books on stamp collecting
- journals on stamp collecting
- newspapers on stamp collecting
- any other thing written about stamp collecting in just about any format.

However, as an art form, literature is written art: works, either on verse or prose, that stem from a creative process.

As with every art form, what is and is not art is matter of debate, and changes with time and space, so the listing that follows doesn't mean that every work in that category is a work of art.

Forms

  The novel
  [The play]? (see also Theater)
  The short story
  The poem
  Comics

Genres

  Autobiography?
  Bildungsroman?
  Biography
  Detective
  Mystery?
  Fantasy
  Satire
  Science fiction
  Spy fiction
  The Slave narrative
  Horror
  Gothic?

Literary figures (note that many of these figures will fit in more than one category. If an author is not listed in every relevant place, please feel free to correct it)

  Novelists
  Poets
  Dramatists
  Short story authors
  Critics?

Also see cultural movements for literary movements.

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