Western literature
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| - | "[[Dedalus Books]] specializes in [[Western literature|European literature]] of "its own distinctive genre [...] where the [[bizarre]], the [[unusual]] and the [[grotesque]] and the [[surreal]] meld in a kind of intellectual fiction which is very European.""--Sholem Stein | + | "[[Dedalus Books]] specializes in [[Western literature|European literature]] of "its own distinctive genre [...] where the [[bizarre]], the [[unusual]] and the [[grotesque]] and the [[surreal]] meld in a kind of intellectual fiction which is very European."--Sholem Stein |
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Western literature refers to the literature of the Indo-European languages, as well as several languages geographically or historically related to the Indo-European languages (Basque, Hungarian, and so forth). Western literature is considered one of the defining elements of Western civilization.
The best of Western literature is considered to be the Western Canon. The list of works in the Western Canon varies according to the critic's opinions on Western culture and the relative importance of its defining characteristics.
Europe is the birthplace of some of the most prominent or popular fiction writers of all time : Homer, Dante Alighieri, François Rabelais, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer, Voltaire, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, C. S. Lewis, Franz Kafka, Agatha Christie, Henrik Ibsen, J. R. R. Tolkien, Rudyard Kipling, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Alexander Pushkin, Knut Hamsun, George Orwell, Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Mary Shelley, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, Daniel Defoe, Anne Frank, John Milton, Umberto Eco, Walter Scott, Beatrix Potter, D. H. Lawrence, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Joseph Conrad, Terry Pratchett, Jonathan Swift, J. M. Barrie, Alan Moore, Anton Chekhov, Patrick Süskind, J. K. Rowling and Sigrid Undset.
See also
- Persian literature in Western culture
- Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (1978) by Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane
