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- literature
- History of Literature[?]
- history of the book[?] may not be the right title book
- Western canon
- the teaching of writing[?]
- poetry
- prosody
- meter
- scansion[?]
- Constrained writing
- poetic formalism
- villanelle
- sonnet
- blank verse[?]
- free verse
- epic
- prose
- fiction
- non-fiction
- biography
- prose formalism
- allegory
- anecdote[?]
- point of view
- the novel
- short story
- journalism
- the essay[?]
- theater
- history of theater
- literary criticism
- metaphor
- Basic Procedural Knowledge
- how to read a poem
- how to read an essay[?]
- how to read prose[?]
- how to write a story[?]
- how to write a poem[?]
- effective reasoning in argument writing[?]
- Techniques, Conceits and Genre (see talk for some ideas on literary genre)
- False document
- Frame tale
- Techniques for Literary interpretation (applications of Literary theory)
- Semiotic literary interpretation
- Psychoanalytic literary interpretation
- Feminist literary interpretation
- Marxist literary interpretation
- New historicist literary interpretation[?]
- Queer literary interpretation