| Outline. Literature, history of. By Paul Nervy | ||||||
| Copyright 2006, Paul Nervy | ||||||
| Subject | Category | Year (When) | Place (Where) | Person(s) (Who) | Thing, Event, Idea, Word, or Work (What) | Description (Why, How, etc.) |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Africa | Fugard, Athol | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Africa | Achebe, Chinua. | Things Fall Apart | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | African | Soyinka, Wole | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Argentina | Borges, Jorge Luis | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. -1900 | Babylonian | Gilgamesh | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Canada | Ondaajte, Michael | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Canada | Margret Atwood | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Canada | Davies, Robertson | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Caribbean | Walcott, Derek. | Carribean poet. Nobel prize. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Carribean | Kinkaid, Jamaica | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Carribean | Naipaul, V. S. | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Chile | Neruda, Pablo | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | China | Xingjan, Gao | Soul Mountain | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | China | Sun Tzu. | Art of War | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | China | I Ching. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | China | Five Classics. I Ching. Shih Ching. Shu Ching. Li Chi. Chun Chiu. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | China | Confusius | Analects. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | China | Mensius | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | China | Lao Tzu | Tao de Ching | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | China | Chuang Tzu | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | China | Chu Yuan | First poet of China. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | China | Wang Wei | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 700 | China | Li Po | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | China | Tu Fu | Greatest poet of China. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1970's | Columbia | Marques, Gabriel Garcia | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1500 | Dutch | Erasmus | The Praise of Folly | Northern European Humanist. |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Eastern European. | Havel, Vaslav. | Eastern Eurpoean author. Became president of Czechoslovakia. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Eastern European. | Kundera, Milan | Unbearable Lightness of Being | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Eastern European. | Milosz, Czeslaw | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Eastern European. | Szymborska, Wislawa | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Egypt | Egyptian Book of the Dead. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Byron, George | Don Juan | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Forster, E.M. | Passage to India. Room with a View. Howard's End. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Dickens, Charles | Tale of Two Cities. Great Expectations. Oliver Twist. David Copperfield. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Oscar Wilde. | Picture of Dorian Gray. The Importance of Being Ernest. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Stanely and Livingston | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Austen, Jane. | Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility. Mansfield Park. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1100 | England | Beowulf | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Woolf, Virginia | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Hardy, Thomas | Return of the Native. Far from the Madding Crowd. Tess D'Ubervilles. Jude the Obscure. Mayor of Casterbridg. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Donne, John | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Isherwood | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Kipling, Rudyard | Jungle Book. Kim. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | English Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Spenser, Edmund | Fairie Queen. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1380 | England | Chaucer, Geoffrey | Canterbury Tales | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1820 | England | De Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1150 | England | Wace | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Greene, Graham | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1700 | England | De Foe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Larkin, Philip | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Maughm, Somerset | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Pope, Alexander | The Rape of the Lock | ||
| Arts, literature | c. 1950's | England | Osborne, John | Look Back in Anger | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | West, Vita Sackville | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Smollet, Tobias | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Lawrence, T. E. | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Tennyson, Alfred | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Hopkins, Gerard Manely | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Thackery, William. | Vanity Fair. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Keats, John | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Wordsworth, William | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Auden, W. H. | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Shelley, Percy Byshe | Prometheus Unbound. Adonais. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | Science fiction | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Milton, John | Paradise Lost. Areopagitica. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Coleridge. | Kubla Khan. Ancient Mariner. | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | England | Stoppard Tom | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Elliot, George | Middlemarch. Silas Marner. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Richard Burton | Arabian Nights | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Waugh, Evelyn | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Johnson, Samuel. | Dictionary of English Language. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Dryden, John | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Caroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland. Through the Looking Glass | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1940's | England | Orwell, George. | 1984. Animal Farm. Important socio-political themes. | |
| Arts, literature | Drama, poetry | England | Shakespere, William | Tragedies. Hamlet. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Comedies. Midsummer Nights Dream. Turn of Screw. As you like it. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Lawrence, D. H. | Sons and Lovers. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1990's | England | Rushdie, Salman | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights. | ||
| Arts, literature | c. 1725 | England | Fielding, Henry | Tom Jones | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Nabokov, Vladamir | Lolita | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Richardson, Samuel | Pamela | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Bloomsbury group | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Arnold, Mathew | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | England | Spender, Stephen | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1950's | England | Golding, William | Lord of the Flies | |
| Arts, literature | c. 1575 | England | Marlowe, Christopher | Doctor Faustus. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1350 | England | Langland, William | Piers Plowman | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Tolkein, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness. Nostromo. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Murdoch, Iris | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Henry Fielding | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | England | Sterne, Laurence | Tristam Shandy | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1800 | English. | Blake, William | Songs of Innocence. Songs of Experience. | |
| Arts, literature | Drama, comedy | France | Racine, Jean | Phaedra. Andromache. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1940's | France | Gide, Andre | The Counterfeiters | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1930's | France | Nin, Anais | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | 1930's | France | Breton, Andre | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1100 | France | Song of Roland | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Montaigne, Michael de | Essays | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | France | Baudelaire, Charles | Les Fleurs du Mal | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1950's | France | Camus, Albert | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Sand, George | Romanticism | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1950's | France | Sartre, Jean Paul | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | France | Albert Camus | The Stranger. Myth of Sisyphus. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1700's | France | Voltaire | Candide | Enlightenment |
| Arts, literature | c. 1550 | France | Ronsard, Pierre | Odes | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama, comedy | c. 1650 | France | Moliere. | Tartuffe. The Misanthrope. The Miser. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Flaubert, Gustav | Madame Bovary | Realism | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Maupassant, Guy de | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Zola, Emile | Realism | ||
| Arts, literature | c. 1650 | France | La Rouchefoucauld | Maxims | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Stendhal | The Red and the Black. | Romanticism | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | De Bergerac, Cyrano. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1650 | France | La Fontaine | Fables. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Hugo, Victor | Hunchback of Notre Dame. Les Miserables. | Realism | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | France | Genet, Jean | ||
| Arts, literature | 1940's | France | Malraux, Andre | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1450 | France | Villon, Francois | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | c. 1650 | France | Cornielle, Pierre | The Cid | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Balzac, Honore | Eugenie Grandet. Father Goriot. | Romanticism | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | France | Apollonaire, Guillaume | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | France | Proust, Marcel | Remembrance of Time Past. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1750 | France | Diederot, Dennis | Encyclopedie | Enlightenment |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | France | Verlaine, Paul | Saturnine Poems | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | France | Rimbaud, Arthur | A Season in Hell | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Pascal, Blaise | Pensees. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Rostand, Edmund | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1700's | France | Rousseau, J.J. | Enlightenment | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | France | Valery, Paul | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Rabelais, Francois | Gargantua and Pantagruel. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | France | Jean Cocteau | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | France | Dumas, Alexander | Three Musketeers. Count of Monte Christo Sandwich. | Realism | |
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1920's | France | France, Anatole | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | France | Mallarme, Stephen | Afternoon of a Faun | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | c. 1930's | French | Anouilh, Jean | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | 1600's | French | Boileau, Nicholas | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1930's | Germany | Mann, Thomas | Buddenbrooks. The Magic Mountain. Joseph and his Brothers. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Grosz, George | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Ellie Wiesel. | Night. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Grass, Gunter | The Tin Drum. | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Germany | Rilke, Ranier | Duino Elegies | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Hesse, Herman | Siddhartha. Steppenwolf. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Hofsmannthal, Hugo | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1800's | Germany | Nietzsche, Friedrich. | Also Sprach Zarathustra. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1700's | Germany | Herder | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1700's | Germany | Schiller | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Boll, Heinrich | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Kafka, Franz. | The Metamorphisis. The Trial. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1100 | Germany | Niebelungenlied | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Germany | Hoederlin. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Musil, Robert | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | Germany | Walser, Robert | |||
| Arts, literature | Drama | c. 1775 | Germany | Shiller, Friederich | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1700's | Germany | Goethe | Faust. Sorrows of Young Werther. | |
| Arts, literature | c. 1900 | Germany | Hauptmann, Gerhardt | |||
| Arts, literature | Germany | Hoffman, E.T.A | ||||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | Germany | Brecht, Berthold | Three Penny Opera | |
| Arts, literature | c. 1825 | Germany | Heine, Heinrich | Die Lorelei | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | Germany | Weil, Kurt | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Greece | Sappho. | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Greece | Pindar. | Lyric poems for athletes | ||
| Arts, literature | c. -800 | Greece | Hesoid | Works and Days | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | Greece | Euripides. | Medea. Orestes. Electra. | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | c. -500 | Greece | Aeschylus | Orestia. The Persians. | |
| Arts, literature | Drama | Greece | Aristophanes. | Birds. Clouds. Wasps. Frogs. Lysistrata. | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | Greece | Sophocles | Antigone. Oedipus the King. Electra. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Greece | Homer | Illiad. Odyssey. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Greece | Aesop | Fables. | ||
| Arts, literature | c. 100 | Greece | Plutarch | Lives | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Greece | Ovid | Metamorphoses | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. -50 | India | Bhagavad Gita | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. -1200 | India | Vedas | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. -350 | India | Mahabarata | ||
| Arts, literature | c. -500 | India | Ramayana | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. -600 | India | Upanishads | ||
| Arts, literature | India | Rao, Raja | ||||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | India | Buddhist Sutras. Heart Sutra. Diamond Sutra. | |||
| Arts, literature | c. 400 | India | Kalidasa | Sakuntala | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900 | India | Tagore, Rabindranath | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Ireland | Synge, J.M. | Playboy of the Wesern World. | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | Ireland | Shaw, George Bernard | Pygmalion. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Ireland | Dylan Thomas | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Ireland | O'Casey, Sean | Juno and the Paycock. The Plough and the Stars. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Ireland | Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | Ireland | Beckett, Samuel | Wating for Godot. The Unnameable. Molloy. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Ireland | Yeats, W.B. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | Ireland | Heany, Seamus | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Ireland | Joyce, James | Ulysses. Finnigans Wake. Portrait of Artist as Young Man. Dubliners. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Israel | Singer, Issac Bashevis | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1350 | Italy | Petrarch | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | Italy | Ionesco, Eugene. | The Bald Soprano. Rhinoceros | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1980's | Italy | Fo, Dario | Can't Pay, Won't Pay | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Italy | Levi, Primo | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1930's | Italy | Pirandello, Luigi | Six Characters in Search of an Author | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1325 | Italy | Dante, Aligheri | The Inferno. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1350 | Italy | Boccacio | The Decameron. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Italy | Calvino, Italo | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Italy | Eco, Umberto | |||
| Arts, literature | c. 1500's | Italy | Ariosto, Ludovico | Orlando Furioso | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1960's | Japan | Kawabata, Yasunari | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1980's | Japan | Oe, Kenzaburo | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1000 | Japanese | Tale of Genji | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Japanese | Issa | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Japanese | Lao Tzu | Tao de Ching | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Japanese | Han Shan. | Cold Mountain. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Japanese | Zen poets. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Japanese | Yokomoto, Banana | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1200 | Japanese | Dogen | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Japanese | Mishima, Yukio | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1650 | Japanese | Basho Matsuo | Haiku | |
| Arts, literature | Drama | Japanese | Kabuki theatre. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Latin America | Magical Realism | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | Mexico | Paz, Octavio | Labyrinth of Solitude | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Middle East | Jewish literature | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Middle East | Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1200 | Persian | Sadi | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1100 | Persian | Khyyam, Omar | Ribiat | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1200 | Persian | Rumi | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Peru | Lhosa, Mario Vargas | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1575 | Portugal | Camoens, Luis vaz de | The Lusiads | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Roman | Virgil | Aeneid | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. -75 | Rome | Catullus | ||
| Arts, literature | Ruissia | Bulgakov, Mikail | ||||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Sharansky, Natan. | Soviet Dissident. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Dostoevsky, Theodor. | Crime and Punishment. Brothers Karamazov. The Idiot. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Capek, Karel | Rossum's Universal Robots | Science fiction | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Sahakarov, Andre | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Pasternak, Boris | Dr. Zhivago | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Gorky, Maxim | The Lower Depths | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Brodsky, Joseph | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Gogol, Nikolai | Dead Souls. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Russia | Ahkmatova, Anna | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Turgenev, Ivan | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Russia | Pushkin, Alexander | Eugen Onegin | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Solzynitzen, Alexandar | Gulag Archipeligo | Soviet Dissident. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Tolstoy, Leo. | War and Peace. Anna Karenina. Death of Ivan Illich. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Gulag Archipeligo. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Russia | Yevtushenko | |||
| Arts, literature | Drama | Russia | Checkov, Anton | The Cherry Orchard. The Seagull. Three Sisters. Uncle Vanya. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Scandinavia | Isben, Henrik | Peer Gynt. A Doll's House. Hedda Gabbler. An Enemy of the People. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Scandinavia | Andersen, Hans Christian | Fairy Tales | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Scandinavia | Knut - novel | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Scandinavia | Strindberg, August | Miss Julia. A Dream Play. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1775 | Scotland | Burns, Robert | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1980's | South Africa | Gordimer, Nadine | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1600 | Spain | Cervantes, Miguel De | Don Quixote | |
| Arts, literature | Drama | c. 1650 | Spain | Calderon | Life is a Dream | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | Spain | Garcia Lorca, Frederico | |||
| Arts, literature | Drama | c. 1575 | Spain | Vega, Lope de | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1950's | Sweeden. | Lagerkvist, Par | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Tibet | Tibetan Book of the Dead. | |||
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Albee, Edward | Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Ammons, A.R. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Anderson, Sherwood | Midwest | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Angelou, Maya. | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Journalism | United States | Apple, R. | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Ashberry, John | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1990's | United States | Auster, Paul | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Baldwin, James | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1960's | United States | Baraka, Imiri | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1950's | United States | Bellow, Saul | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1930's | United States | Benchley, Robert | Algonquin Roundtable | |
| Arts, literature | Journalism | United States | Bernstein | All the President's Men | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1950's | United States | Bishop, Elizabeth | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Bryant, William Cullen | Thanatopsis | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1960's | United States | Brautigan, Richard | In Watermelon Sugar | Trippy 60's writer. Poetic. |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1960's | United States | Bukowski, Charles. | Mockingbird Wish Me Luck | |
| Arts, literature | Prose | c. 1960's | United States | Bukowski, Charles. | Post Office. Factotum. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Burroughs, William. | Naked Lunch | Beat generation | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Carver, Raymond | Southern writers | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Cassady, Neal | The First Third | Beat generation | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Cather, Wila | O Pioneers. My Antonia. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Chabon, Michael | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Chopin, Kate. | The Awakening. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Cooper, James Fenimore. | Last of the Mohicans. Leatherstocking Tales. | Northeast | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Corso, Gregory | The Mad Yack | Beat generation | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1930's | United States | Crane, Hart | The Bridge | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Cullen, Countee | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1930's | United States | Cummings, e.e. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1980's | United States | Delilo, Don | Underworld | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1960's | United States | Dick, Philip | Science fiction | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1860's | United States | Dickinson, Emily. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Doctorow, E.L. | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1920's | United States | Dolittle, Hilda (H.D.) | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1930's | United States | Dos Passos, John | USA trilogy | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Douglas, Frederick | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Dreiser, Theodore | Sister Carrie. An American Tragedy. | Muckracker | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | DuBois, WEB | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1920's | United States | Elliot, T. S. | The Wasteland | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1980's | United States | Ellis, Bret Easton | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man | Afro-american | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Emerson, Ralph Waldo. | On Nature | Northeast | |
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Erdich, Louise | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1930's | United States | Faulkner, William | As I Lay Dying. The Sound and Fury. | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1950's | United States | Ferlinghetti, Lawrence | Beat generation | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1920's | United States | Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Franklin, Benjamin | Poor Richards Almanac | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 2000's | United States | Franzen, Jonathan | The Corrections | |
| Arts, literature | Journalism | United States | Friedman, Thomas | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1910's | United States | Frost, Robert. | New England | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1950's | United States | Ginsberg, Allen | Howl. Planet News. | Beat generation |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Gluck, Louise | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Hawthorne, Nathaniel. | Scarlet Letter. House of Seven Gables. | Northeast | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1950's | United States | Heller, Joseph | Catch 22. | Catch 22 is an anti-war novel. |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Hemingway, Ernest. | Farewell to Arms. Sun also Rises. Snows of Kilimanjaro. | ||
| Arts, literature | Journalism | United States | Henthoff, Nat | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1960's | United States | Heron, Gil Scott | The Revolution will not be Televised. | |
| Arts, literature | Journalism | United States | Hersch, Seymour | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Holmes, John Cellon | Beat generation | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Hughes, Langston | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Hurston, Zora Neale | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Irving, Washington. | Legend of Sleepy Hollow. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | James, Henry | The Ambassadors. Daisy Miller. Portrait of a Lady. | Northeast | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1980's | United States | Janowitz, Tama | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1930's | United States | Jeffers, Robinson. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Justice, Donald | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1930's | United States | Kaufmann, George | Algonquin Roundtable | |
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Kennedy, William | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1950's | United States | Kerouac, Jack | Scattered Poems | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Kerouac, Jack. | On the Road. Dharma Bums. Visions of Cody. Subterraneans. Big Sur. | Beat generation | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1960's | United States | Kesey, Ken | One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Kunitz, Stanely | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Letham, Johnathan | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Levine, Philip | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Lewis, Sinclair | Babbit | Midwest | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1910 | United States | London, Jack. | Call of the Wild. White Fang. The People of the Abyss | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Northeast | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1940's | United States | Lowell, Robert | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1950's | United States | Mailer, Norman | Armies of the Night | |
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Mamet, David | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | McCarthy, Cormac | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1980's | United States | McInerney, Jay | Bright Lights, Big City | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Melville, Herman | Moby Dick. | Northeast | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1960's | United States | Merrill, James | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Merwin, W.S. | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1920's | United States | Millay, Edna St. Vincent | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Miller, Arthur | Death of a Salesman. The Crucible | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Miller, Henry | Tropic of Cancer | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1990's | United States | Moody, Rick | The Ice Storm | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1930's | United States | Moore, Marianne | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Morrison, Toni. | Afro-american. Nobel 1993. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Munro, Alice | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Nemerov, Howard | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | United States | Norris, Frank | The Octopus. The Pit. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | O'Connor, Flannery | Southern writers | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | O'Hara, Frank | Beat generation | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | O'Neil, Eugene | The Iceman Cometh. Long Days Journey Into Night. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Oates, Joyce Carol | |||
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Odets, Clifford | Waiting for Lefty | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1920's | United States | Parker, Dorothy | Algonquin Roundtable | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | 1950's | United States | Plath, Sylvia | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Poe, Edgar Allen | The Raven. Fall of the House of Usher. Cask of Amontillado. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1920's | United States | Pound, Ezra | Cantos | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1960's | United States | Pynchon, Thomas | Gravity's Rainbow. Vineland. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Rexroth, Kenneth | Beat generation | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Rich, Adrienne | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Robinson, Edward Arlington | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1900's | United States | Riis, Jacob | How the Other Half Lives | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1950's | United States | Roth, Philip. | Call it Sleep. | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1910's | United States | Sandburg, Carl | Midwest. | |
| Arts, literature | Journalism | United States | Schanberg, Sydney | The Year of Living Dangerously | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Sexton, Anne | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein | Horror. | |
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Shepard, Sam | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Simic, Charles | |||
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Simon, Neil | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Sinclair, Upton | The Jungle | Midwest | |
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Smiley, Jane | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1950's | United States | Snyder, Gary | Turtle Island | Beat generation |
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Sontag, Susan | |||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1920's | United States | Stein, Gertrude | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1930's | United States | Steinbeck, John | Grapes of Wrath. Cannery Row. Tortilla Flats. Of Mice and Men | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Stoker, Bram | Dracula | Horror. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Afro-american | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Strand, Mark | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Styron, William | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Thoreau, Henry David | Walden | Northeast | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Truth, Sojourner | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Tubman, Harriet | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn. Adventures of Tom Sawyer. | Southern writers | |
| Arts, literature | Prose | United States | Tyler, Anne | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1950's | United States | Updike, John | Middle aged suburbanites | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Upton Sinclair. | The Jungle. | "The Jungle", by Upton Sinclair, describes the abuses of the Chicago meatpacking industry at the beginning of the 1900's. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1990's | United States | Vollman, William | Many books | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1960's | United States | Vonnegut, Kurt | Fahrenheit 451. Slaughterhouse 5. | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Walker, Alice. | Afro-american | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1990's | United States | Wallace, David Foster | Infinite Jest | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Welty, Eudora | Southern gothic | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | West, Nathaniel. | Day of the Locust | Hollywood in the 1920's | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | Northeast | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1860's | United States | Whitman, Walt. | Leaves of Grass. | |
| Arts, literature | Poetry | United States | Wilbur, Richard | |||
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Williams, Tenessee | Streetcar Named Desire. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. | ||
| Arts, literature | Poetry | c. 1930's | United States | Williams, William Carlos. | ||
| Arts, literature | Drama | United States | Wilson, August | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1930's | United States | Wolcott, Alexander | Algonquin Roundtable | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Wolfe, Thomas | Look Homeward Angel | Southern writers | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1970's | United States | Wolfe, Tom | Pump House Gang | |
| Arts, literature | Journalism | United States | Woodward | All the President's Men | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1950's | United States | Wouk, Herman | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Wright, Richard | Black Boy | Afro-american | |
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | c. 1980's | United States | Brat pack: Jay McInerney. Brett Easton Ellis. Tama Janowitz. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | United States | Muckrackers. Social activist journalists. | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Heinlein, Robert | Science fiction | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Mistral, Gabriela | ||||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Bradbury, Ray | Science fiction | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | LEM | Science fiction | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Clark, Arthur C. | Science fiction | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Science fiction | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Asimov, Issac | Science fiction | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Brothers Grimm | Fairy tales | |||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Buck, Pearl | The Good Earth | A novel about life in China. | ||
| Arts, literature | Prose, fiction | Wells, H. G. | Time Machine. War of the Worlds. Invisible Man. | Science fiction | ||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Ricouer, Paul | Hermeneutics | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Benjamin, Walter | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Said, Edward. | Colonial theory. Orientalism | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Eagleton, Terry | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Ingarden, Roman | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Trilling, Lionel | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Aristotle. | Poetics | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | McLuhan, Marshall. | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Irigaray, Luce | French feminist theory | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Frye, Northrop | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Cixous, Helene | French feminist theory | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Jakobson, Roman | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Kermode, Frank | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Empson, William | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Gates, Henry Louis Jr. | Black criticism. | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Bloomsbury Group. | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Levi-Strauss, Claude | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Fish, Stanely | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Jameson, Fredric. | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Foucault, Michel | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Brooks, Cleanth | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Derrida, Jacques | Deconstruction | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | de Man, Paul | Deconstruction | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Burke, Kenneth. | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Iser, Wolfgang | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Kristeva, Julia | French feminist theory | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Freud, Sigmund | Psychoanalytic literary criticism | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Bakhtin, Mikhail. | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Richards, IA | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Leavis, FR | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Barthes, Roland | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | New Criticism | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Johnson, Samuel. | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Lacan, Jacques | Psychoanalytic literary criticism | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Dilthey, Wilhelm | Hermeneutics | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Bloom, Harold | Artists trying to differentiate and out do each other | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Lyotard, Jean Francois | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Wilson, Edmund | ||||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | de Saussure, Ferdinand | Structuralism | |||
| Arts, literature, lit crit | Literary theory | Butler, Judith | Queer theory |