Western literature - Wikipedia Western literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the literary genre, see Western fiction. History of literature by era Bronze Age Ancient Egyptian Akkadian Sumerian Classical Avestan Chinese Greek Hebrew Latin Tamil Pali Prakrit Sanskrit Syriac Early Medieval Matter of Rome Matter of France Matter of Britain Armenian Byzantine Old English Georgian German Japanese Kannada Middle Persian Turkish Medieval Old Bulgarian Middle English Arabic Persian Armenian Byzantine Castilian Catalan Dutch French Georgian German Bengali Hindi Old Irish Italian Japanese Korean Malayalam Nepal Bhasa Norse Russian Serbian Telugu Turkish Welsh Early Modern Renaissance Baroque Modern by century 18th 19th 20th 21st  Literature portal v t e Western literature, also known as European literature,[1] is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European language family[1] as well as several geographically or historically related languages such as Basque and Hungarian. 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. Western literature includes written works in many languages: Albanian literature American literature Argentine literature Australian literature Austrian literature Basque literature Belarusian literature Belgian literature Bosnian literature Brazilian literature British literature Bulgarian literature Canadian literature Catalan literature Croatian literature Cypriot literature Czech literature Danish literature Dutch literature English literature Estonian literature Finnish literature French literature Gaelic literature German literature Greek literature Ancient Greek literature Hungarian literature Icelandic literature Irish literature Italian literature Latin literature Latin American literature Latvian literature Lithuanian literature Macedonian literature Maltese literature Mexican literature New Zealand literature Northern Irish literature Norwegian literature Polish literature Portuguese literature Romanian literature Russian literature Scottish literature Serbian literature Slovak literature Slovene literature Sorbian literature Spanish literature Swedish literature Swiss literature Ukrainian literature Uruguayan literature Welsh literature Yiddish literature See also[edit] Persian literature in Western culture Oceanian literature References[edit] ^ a b "Western literature". 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Retrieved 19 May 2014. v t e European literature Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom States with limited recognition Abkhazia Artsakh Kosovo Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other entities Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard v t e Western world and culture Aspects Canon Esotericism Law Literature Media Music Painting (contemporary) Philosophy Religion History Ancient history mid antiquity late antiquity Post-classical early high late Early modern Christendom Renaissance Reformation Age of Enlightenment Great Divergence Modern Modernism Westernization World Wars Cold War War on Terror Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Western_literature&oldid=1002460040" Categories: Western culture Literature by language Literature by continent European literature Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Afrikaans አማርኛ العربية Català Español Esperanto Euskara Français Galego Հայերեն Norsk bokmål Português Русский Slovenčina Tagalog Türkçe Tiếng Việt Edit links This page was last edited on 24 January 2021, at 15:50 (UTC). 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