# Literature Decks

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Canonical URL: https://shipslides.com/c/literature
Deck count: 15

## Decks

### Children's Literature
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-childrens-literature
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-childrens-literature/llms.txt
Slides: 32
Tags: literature, childrens

Books written for children, illustrated for children, published for children, and read by children — sometimes also by their parents, and often, decades later, by the children's children. Key sections include: Children's Literature.; Opening What this is.; Chapter I The invention of childhood.; Chapter II John Newbery.; Chapter III The Brothers Grimm.; Chapter IV Hans Christian Andersen.; Chapter V Alice.; Chapter VI Beatrix Potter.; Chapter VII The Wind in the Willows.; Chapter VIII Frances Hodgson Burnett..

Outline:
1. Children's Literature.
2. Opening What this is.
3. Chapter I The invention of childhood.
4. Chapter II John Newbery.
5. Chapter III The Brothers Grimm.
6. Chapter IV Hans Christian Andersen.
7. Chapter V Alice.
8. Chapter VI Beatrix Potter.
9. Chapter VII The Wind in the Willows.
10. Chapter VIII Frances Hodgson Burnett.
11. Chapter IX A. A. Milne.
12. Chapter X The American Golden Age.
13. Chapter XI Dr. Seuss.
14. Chapter XII E. B. White.
15. Chapter XIII Maurice Sendak.
16. Chapter XIV Roald Dahl.
17. Chapter XV Narnia.
18. Chapter XVI Tolkien.
19. Chapter XVII Le Guin.
20. Chapter XVIII Judy Blume.
21. Chapter XIX The Newbery.
22. Chapter XX The Caldecott.
23. Chapter XXI The fantasists.
24. Chapter XXII Pullman.
25. Chapter XXIII Harry Potter.
26. Chapter XXIV The 2010s YA.
27. Chapter XXV The picture book.
28. Chapter XXVI The age ladder.
29. Chapter XXVII Whose stories.
30. Chapter XXVIII Thirty essential works.
31. Chapter XXIX Watch & read.
32. The end of the deck.

### Comics
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-comics-graphic-novels
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-comics-graphic-novels/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: literature, comics, graphic, novels

Comics — sequential art with text and image working together — is among the youngest narrative forms (200 years vs. millennia for novels) and among the most expansive in technique. The medium ranges from Sunday-paper strips to literary graphic novels in the Pulitzer-and-MacArthur firmament. Key sections include: Co mics.; Opening Sequential art.; Chapter I The first comics.; Chapter II Outcault to Herriman.; Chapter III The 1930s emergence.; Chapter IV Pre-Code horror.; Chapter V The graphic novel concept.; Chapter VI R. Crumb and the 1960s.; Chapter VII Moore and Gibbons, 1986.; Chapter VIII Spiegelman's masterpiece..

Outline:
1. Co mics.
2. Opening Sequential art.
3. Chapter I The first comics.
4. Chapter II Outcault to Herriman.
5. Chapter III The 1930s emergence.
6. Chapter IV Pre-Code horror.
7. Chapter V The graphic novel concept.
8. Chapter VI R. Crumb and the 1960s.
9. Chapter VII Moore and Gibbons, 1986.
10. Chapter VIII Spiegelman's masterpiece.
11. Chapter IX Gaiman's mythology.
12. Chapter X Japanese sequential art.
13. Chapter XI The Franco-Belgian tradition.
14. Chapter XII Satrapi's autobiography.
15. Chapter XIII Fun Home.
16. Chapter XIV Jimmy Corrigan.
17. Chapter XV Adrian Tomine.
18. Chapter XVI The internet decade.
19. Chapter XVII The 2010s expansion.
20. Chapter XVIII Marvel Cinematic Universe.
21. Chapter XIX Eisners, Hugos, Pulitzers.
22. Chapter XX McCloud and beyond.
23. Chapter XXI The 2010s shift.
24. Chapter XXII Censorship and protests.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn it.
28. Chapter XXVI Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

### Contemporary Fiction
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-contemporary-fiction
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-contemporary-fiction/llms.txt
Slides: 26
Tags: literature, contemporary, fiction

Contemporary, in this deck, is roughly 2000 to now. Twenty-six years of literary fiction. Three observable shifts. Key sections include: Contemporary Fiction.; Opening What contemporary means here.; Chapter I The autofictional turn.; Chapter II The autofiction triangulation.; Chapter III Han Kang.; Chapter IV Tokarczuk & Erpenbeck.; Chapter V Japanese contemporary.; Chapter VI The Latin American present.; Chapter VII The American post-DFW generation.; Chapter VIII Black American fiction now..

Outline:
1. Contemporary Fiction.
2. Opening What contemporary means here.
3. Chapter I The autofictional turn.
4. Chapter II The autofiction triangulation.
5. Chapter III Han Kang.
6. Chapter IV Tokarczuk & Erpenbeck.
7. Chapter V Japanese contemporary.
8. Chapter VI The Latin American present.
9. Chapter VII The American post-DFW generation.
10. Chapter VIII Black American fiction now.
11. Chapter IX African fiction.
12. Chapter X South Asian.
13. Chapter XI British contemporary.
14. Chapter XII Diasporic.
15. Chapter XIII Climate fiction.
16. Chapter XIV Genre and literary, fused.
17. Chapter XV Formal preferences of the period.
18. Chapter XVI The prize system.
19. Chapter XVII Adaptation.
20. Chapter XVIII Thirty since 2000.
21. Chapter XIX Where to keep up.
22. Chapter XX Watch & read.
23. Chapter XXI The next ten years.
24. Chapter XXII A starter set.
25. Chapter XXIII Caveat.
26. The end of the deck.

### Drama
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-drama
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-drama/llms.txt
Slides: 28
Tags: literature, drama

Drama is the only literary form whose finished version is a live performance. Everything else — the text, the stage directions, the script — is preparation. Key sections include: Dr a ma.; Opening The play is the event.; I · First principles The Poetics.; II The Athenian three.; III Comedy.; IV Roman drama.; V Sanskrit theatre.; VI The medieval stage.; VII Noh & Kabuki.; VIII Commedia dell'arte..

Outline:
1. Dr a ma.
2. Opening The play is the event.
3. I · First principles The Poetics.
4. II The Athenian three.
5. III Comedy.
6. IV Roman drama.
7. V Sanskrit theatre.
8. VI The medieval stage.
9. VII Noh & Kabuki.
10. VIII Commedia dell'arte.
11. IX Shakespeare.
12. X Marlowe, Jonson, Webster.
13. XI Molière & Racine.
14. XII Goethe's Faust.
15. XIII Ibsen, & the modern.
16. XIV Chekhov.
17. XV Strindberg & Pirandello.
18. XVI O'Neill.
19. XVII Brecht.
20. XVIII Beckett.
21. XIX Williams, Miller, Hansberry.
22. XX Pinter, Stoppard, Churchill.
23. XXI August Wilson.
24. XXII Where the form is now.
25. XXIII Twenty-six plays.
26. XXIV Directors as authors.
27. XXV Where to go next.
28. The end of the deck.

### Epic & Myth
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-epic-and-myth
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-epic-and-myth/llms.txt
Slides: 26
Tags: literature, epic, and, myth

Almost every culture that has produced a literature has produced an epic — a long, formal, poetic account of how its people came to be where they are. Key sections include: Epic & Myth.; Opening What an epic is.; Chapter I Gilgamesh.; Chapter II The Iliad.; Chapter III The Odyssey.; Chapter IV The Aeneid.; Chapter V Mahabharata.; Chapter VI Ramayana.; Chapter VII Beowulf.; Chapter VIII Norse — Eddas and Sagas..

Outline:
1. Epic & Myth.
2. Opening What an epic is.
3. Chapter I Gilgamesh.
4. Chapter II The Iliad.
5. Chapter III The Odyssey.
6. Chapter IV The Aeneid.
7. Chapter V Mahabharata.
8. Chapter VI Ramayana.
9. Chapter VII Beowulf.
10. Chapter VIII Norse — Eddas and Sagas.
11. Chapter IX Shahnameh.
12. Chapter X Sundiata.
13. Chapter XI Popol Vuh.
14. Chapter XII The Tale of the Heike.
15. Chapter XIII Mythological systems compared.
16. Chapter XIV Joseph Campbell.
17. Chapter XV Lévi-Strauss on myth.
18. Chapter XVI Oral-formulaic theory.
19. Chapter XVII Christian epic.
20. Chapter XVIII Joyce, Walcott, H.D., Atwood.
21. Chapter XIX Where the form went.
22. Chapter XX Twenty-five.
23. Chapter XXI Watch & read.
24. Chapter XXII Why read epic.
25. Chapter XXIII How to read the originals.
26. The end of the deck.

### The Essay Tradition
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-essay-tradition
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-essay-tradition/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: literature, essay, tradition

An essay is a piece of prose that thinks. Argument is welcome but not required; the form's distinguishing feature is the visible movement of a mind — turning a question over, qualifying, doubting, returning, surprising itself. Key sections include: The Essay.; Opening What an essay is.; Chapter I Montaigne, the inventor.; Chapter II Bacon, the other founder.; Chapter III The periodical essay.; Chapter IV The Romantic familiar essay.; Chapter V Victorian and American 19th century.; Chapter VI Modernist essayists.; Chapter VII The New Yorker essay.; Chapter VIII The serious magazine essay..

Outline:
1. The Essay.
2. Opening What an essay is.
3. Chapter I Montaigne, the inventor.
4. Chapter II Bacon, the other founder.
5. Chapter III The periodical essay.
6. Chapter IV The Romantic familiar essay.
7. Chapter V Victorian and American 19th century.
8. Chapter VI Modernist essayists.
9. Chapter VII The New Yorker essay.
10. Chapter VIII The serious magazine essay.
11. Chapter IX New Journalism.
12. Chapter X The lyric essay.
13. Chapter XI Auto-theory and the personal.
14. Chapter XII The political essay.
15. Chapter XIII The essay outside English.
16. Chapter XIV Where essays appear.
17. Chapter XV What makes an essay good.
18. Chapter XVI The essay as criticism.
19. Chapter XVII The essay online.
20. Chapter XVIII Teaching the essay.
21. Chapter XIX Twenty single essays.
22. Chapter XX The case against the essay.
23. Chapter XXI The contemporary scene.
24. Chapter XXII The AI question.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to write essays.
28. Chapter XXVI Why the essay matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

### Lit-Journ
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-journalism-as-literature
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-journalism-as-literature/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: literature, journalism

Some journalism is literature. The work that happens when a reporter brings novelistic technique — scene, character, voice, pacing — to the documentary task produces a hybrid that is more than its parts. Key sections include: Journalism as Literature.; Opening Where reporting meets craft.; Chapter I The first.; Chapter II Reportage and fiction.; Chapter III War and slum.; Chapter IV Down and out.; Chapter V Hiroshima.; Chapter VI The mid-century anchor.; Chapter VII Joe Gould.; Chapter VIII In Cold Blood..

Outline:
1. Journalism as Literature.
2. Opening Where reporting meets craft.
3. Chapter I The first.
4. Chapter II Reportage and fiction.
5. Chapter III War and slum.
6. Chapter IV Down and out.
7. Chapter V Hiroshima.
8. Chapter VI The mid-century anchor.
9. Chapter VII Joe Gould.
10. Chapter VIII In Cold Blood.
11. Chapter IX The manifesto.
12. Chapter X Slouching towards Bethlehem.
13. Chapter XI The participant.
14. Chapter XII The observer.
15. Chapter XIII Gonzo.
16. Chapter XIV Nickel and Dimed.
17. Chapter XV Adventure journalism.
18. Chapter XVI Memory and document.
19. Chapter XVII The long-form magazine.
20. Chapter XVIII The political-personal.
21. Chapter XIX Atavist, Longreads, the Substack era.
22. Chapter XX Auto-journalism.
23. Chapter XXI Reporting at length.
24. Chapter XXII Where it lives.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn it.
28. Chapter XXVI Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

### Literary Modernism
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-literary-modernism
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-literary-modernism/llms.txt
Slides: 26
Tags: literature, literary, modernism

Modernism, in literature, is the period when writers stopped assuming the inherited forms of the 19th century could carry what they wanted to say. Key sections include: Literary Modernism.; Opening What modernism meant.; Chapter I Before modernism.; Chapter II Pound.; Chapter III Eliot.; Chapter IV H.D. and Imagism.; Chapter V Wallace Stevens.; Chapter VI The American counter.; Chapter VII Gertrude Stein.; Chapter VIII Joyce..

Outline:
1. Literary Modernism.
2. Opening What modernism meant.
3. Chapter I Before modernism.
4. Chapter II Pound.
5. Chapter III Eliot.
6. Chapter IV H.D. and Imagism.
7. Chapter V Wallace Stevens.
8. Chapter VI The American counter.
9. Chapter VII Gertrude Stein.
10. Chapter VIII Joyce.
11. Chapter IX Woolf.
12. Chapter X Faulkner.
13. Chapter XI British modernist short prose.
14. Chapter XII Mann, Musil, Pessoa, Svevo.
15. Chapter XIII Kafka.
16. Chapter XIV Russian modernism.
17. Chapter XV Futurism, Dada, Surrealism.
18. Chapter XVI The Harlem Renaissance.
19. Chapter XVII The closing.
20. Chapter XVIII The criticism.
21. Chapter XIX Twenty-five modernist works.
22. Chapter XX An order.
23. Chapter XXI Watch & read.
24. Chapter XXII What modernism became.
25. Chapter XXIII Why read it.
26. The end of the deck.

### Memoir & Autobiography
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-memoir
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-memoir/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: literature, memoir

Autobiography is the story of a life. Memoir is the story of a moment, a relationship, a question, an obsession — told from inside a life. Auto-fiction is the recognition that the story we tell about ourselves was never simply true. Key sections include: Memoir & Autobiography.; Opening What we mean.; Chapter I The first Confessions.; Chapter II 1782.; Chapter III Spiritual lives.; Chapter IV The American slave narrative.; Chapter V Modernist memoir.; Chapter VI Speak, Memory.; Chapter VII Mary McCarthy.; Chapter VIII 1990s memoir..

Outline:
1. Memoir & Autobiography.
2. Opening What we mean.
3. Chapter I The first Confessions.
4. Chapter II 1782.
5. Chapter III Spiritual lives.
6. Chapter IV The American slave narrative.
7. Chapter V Modernist memoir.
8. Chapter VI Speak, Memory.
9. Chapter VII Mary McCarthy.
10. Chapter VIII 1990s memoir.
11. Chapter IX The Liars' Club.
12. Chapter X Angela's Ashes.
13. Chapter XI This Boy's Life.
14. Chapter XII Vivian Gornick.
15. Chapter XIII The ethics of memoir.
16. Chapter XIV The truth question.
17. Chapter XV The Year of Magical Thinking.
18. Chapter XVI Just Kids.
19. Chapter XVII The Argonauts.
20. Chapter XVIII The Art of Memoir.
21. Chapter XIX Annie Ernaux.
22. Chapter XX Beyond English.
23. Chapter XXI The trauma memoir.
24. Chapter XXII Illness memoir.
25. Chapter XXIII Celebrity vs. literary.
26. Chapter XXIV The form's expansion.
27. Chapter XXV The diary cousin.
28. Chapter XXVI Twenty-eight works.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
30. Closing What memoir asks.
31. The end of the deck.

### Mystery & Detective Fiction
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-mystery-and-detective
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-mystery-and-detective/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: literature, mystery, and, detective

The detective story is the only literary form in which the reader is officially permitted to enjoy a corpse. Its central labour is to make the disordered legible: to take a death, a deception, or an absence, and reorganise the world around it until the reader sees what was always there. Key sections include: Mystery & Detective.; A FIRST WORD What the genre is for.; CHAPTER I Fair play.; CHAPTER II Poe invents the detective.; CHAPTER III Collins · the first English detective novel.; CHAPTER IV Holmes.; CHAPTER V The Golden Age.; CHAPTER VI Christie.; CHAPTER VII The locked-room puzzle.; CHAPTER VIII Father Brown..

Outline:
1. Mystery & Detective.
2. A FIRST WORD What the genre is for.
3. CHAPTER I Fair play.
4. CHAPTER II Poe invents the detective.
5. CHAPTER III Collins · the first English detective novel.
6. CHAPTER IV Holmes.
7. CHAPTER V The Golden Age.
8. CHAPTER VI Christie.
9. CHAPTER VII The locked-room puzzle.
10. CHAPTER VIII Father Brown.
11. CHAPTER IX The hard-boiled school.
12. CHAPTER X Chandler on what the form is for.
13. CHAPTER XI The pulp tradition.
14. CHAPTER XII Highsmith.
15. CHAPTER XIII Postwar British.
16. CHAPTER XIV The police procedural.
17. CHAPTER XV Simenon · French restraint.
18. CHAPTER XVI Scandinavian noir.
19. CHAPTER XVII Japanese crime.
20. CHAPTER XVIII The literary thriller.
21. CHAPTER XIX The inverted mystery.
22. CHAPTER XX Tana French.
23. CHAPTER XXI Mosley · Black Los Angeles.
24. CHAPTER XXII Domestic suspense.
25. CHAPTER XXIII The crime novel as social novel.
26. CHAPTER XXIV The working parts.
27. CHAPTER XXV Cosy vs dark.
28. CHAPTER XXVI Thirty essential mysteries.
29. CHAPTER XXVII Where to go next.
30. Case closed.

### The Novel
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LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-novels/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: literature, novels

A novel is a long prose fiction, almost always told in chapters, almost always concerned with the interior life of at least one ordinary person, and almost always reading like one piece of writing rather than a collection. Key sections include: The Novel.; A first word What we mean by the novel.; Chapter I What counts as a novel.; Chapter II Before there were novels.; Chapter III Murasaki's Genji.; Chapter IV Cervantes & the modern novel.; Chapter V The English eighteenth century.; Chapter VI Austen and the inward turn.; Chapter VII The sisters at Haworth.; Chapter VIII Dickens, in numbers..

Outline:
1. The Novel.
2. A first word What we mean by the novel.
3. Chapter I What counts as a novel.
4. Chapter II Before there were novels.
5. Chapter III Murasaki's Genji.
6. Chapter IV Cervantes & the modern novel.
7. Chapter V The English eighteenth century.
8. Chapter VI Austen and the inward turn.
9. Chapter VII The sisters at Haworth.
10. Chapter VIII Dickens, in numbers.
11. Chapter IX Middlemarch and after.
12. Chapter X Flaubert and the perfect sentence.
13. Chapter XI Tolstoy.
14. Chapter XII Dostoevsky.
15. Chapter XIII The American century begins.
16. Chapter XIV James and the novel of consciousness.
17. Chapter XV The modernist break.
18. Chapter XVI Kafka.
19. Chapter XVII Hemingway · Fitzgerald · Faulkner.
20. Chapter XVIII Ellison, Baldwin, Morrison, Atwood.
21. Chapter XIX The Latin American Boom.
22. Chapter XX The American postmodern.
23. Chapter XXI The translated novel.
24. Chapter XXII Form and chapter.
25. Chapter XXIII Voice and narrator.
26. Chapter XXIV Character, plot, setting, time.
27. Chapter XXV The canon question.
28. Chapter XXVI Where the novel is now.
29. Chapter XXVII Thirty novels.
30. Chapter XXVIII Where to go next.
31. The end of the deck.

### Poetry
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LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-poetry/llms.txt
Slides: 29
Tags: literature, poetry

The single fact that distinguishes poetry from prose is the line. Where a sentence ends because a thought is finished, a line ends because the poet has decided so. That decision is the form. Key sections include: Po e try.; Opening The line, not the sentence.; I · Definition What a poem is.; II · Origins Before the page.; III The alliterative line.; IV Dante & the Commedia.; V The sonnet.; VI The English Romantics.; VII Whitman, & the long American line.; VIII Dickinson, & compression..

Outline:
1. Po e try.
2. Opening The line, not the sentence.
3. I · Definition What a poem is.
4. II · Origins Before the page.
5. III The alliterative line.
6. IV Dante & the Commedia.
7. V The sonnet.
8. VI The English Romantics.
9. VII Whitman, & the long American line.
10. VIII Dickinson, & compression.
11. IX Yeats & the modernizing tradition.
12. X Eliot & The Waste Land.
13. XI The Modernists abroad.
14. XII The New York School.
15. XIII The confessional poets.
16. XIV Black American poetry.
17. XV Heaney & the Irish line.
18. XVI Eastern European poetry.
19. XVII The Asian traditions.
20. XVIII Forms in detail.
21. XIX How free verse works.
22. XX Prose poetry & the boundary.
23. XXI Translation.
24. XXII Reading aloud.
25. XXIII Now.
26. XXIV Thirty poems.
27. XXV The shelf of anthologies.
28. XXVI Where to go next.
29. The end of the deck.

### Science Fiction
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LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-science-fiction/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: literature, science, fiction

Science fiction is the literature that takes one premise its world does not allow — a different physics, a different history, a different species — and follows the consequences with a straight face. Key sections include: Science Fiction.; A FIRST WORD What sf is for.; CHAPTER I Cognitive estrangement.; CHAPTER II Before there was a name.; CHAPTER III The first sf novel.; CHAPTER IV Verne · the engineering romance.; CHAPTER V Wells · the social novel under cover.; CHAPTER VI The magazine era.; CHAPTER VII The Golden Age.; CHAPTER VIII Dune · the ecological epic..

Outline:
1. Science Fiction.
2. A FIRST WORD What sf is for.
3. CHAPTER I Cognitive estrangement.
4. CHAPTER II Before there was a name.
5. CHAPTER III The first sf novel.
6. CHAPTER IV Verne · the engineering romance.
7. CHAPTER V Wells · the social novel under cover.
8. CHAPTER VI The magazine era.
9. CHAPTER VII The Golden Age.
10. CHAPTER VIII Dune · the ecological epic.
11. CHAPTER IX The New Wave.
12. CHAPTER X Le Guin.
13. CHAPTER XI Dick · paranoia as method.
14. CHAPTER XII Delany · the experimental sf novel.
15. CHAPTER XIII Feminist sf.
16. CHAPTER XIV Butler.
17. CHAPTER XV Cyberpunk.
18. CHAPTER XVI The post-cyberpunk grand canvas.
19. CHAPTER XVII The New Weird.
20. CHAPTER XVIII Chinese sf goes global.
21. CHAPTER XIX Jemisin.
22. CHAPTER XX Chiang · the philosophical short.
23. CHAPTER XXI Climate fiction.
24. CHAPTER XXII The cosy turn.
25. CHAPTER XXIII Dystopia.
26. CHAPTER XXIV The hard / soft distinction.
27. CHAPTER XXV Sf on the screen.
28. CHAPTER XXVI Thirty essential sf books.
29. CHAPTER XXVII Where to go next.
30. End of transmission.

### Short Fiction
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LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-short-fiction/llms.txt
Slides: 26
Tags: literature, short, fiction

A short story is the form a writer uses when a single effect is the whole point. It does in twenty pages what a novel needs three hundred for and what a poem refuses to do at all. Key sections include: Short Fiction.; Opening What a short story is.; Chapter I Before the modern story.; Chapter II Edgar Allan Poe.; Chapter III Hawthorne.; Chapter IV Maupassant.; Chapter V Chekhov.; Chapter VI Dubliners.; Chapter VII British modernist short story.; Chapter VIII Hemingway and the iceberg..

Outline:
1. Short Fiction.
2. Opening What a short story is.
3. Chapter I Before the modern story.
4. Chapter II Edgar Allan Poe.
5. Chapter III Hawthorne.
6. Chapter IV Maupassant.
7. Chapter V Chekhov.
8. Chapter VI Dubliners.
9. Chapter VII British modernist short story.
10. Chapter VIII Hemingway and the iceberg.
11. Chapter IX Borges.
12. Chapter X Cortázar.
13. Chapter XI Flannery O'Connor.
14. Chapter XII The New Yorker era.
15. Chapter XIII Carver.
16. Chapter XIV Munro.
17. Chapter XV The contemporary American story.
18. Chapter XVI Beyond English.
19. Chapter XVII The middle ground.
20. Chapter XVIII How a story is built.
21. Chapter XIX Thirty stories.
22. Chapter XX Where to read.
23. Chapter XXI Critics worth reading.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII Why read short fiction.
26. The end of the deck.

### World Literature
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LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/literature-world-literature/llms.txt
Slides: 27
Tags: literature, world

Almost everything you have not yet read. The English-speaking world publishes roughly 3% of its books in translation; in France, the figure is over 20%; in Germany, 12%; in Korea and Sweden, around 25%. The Anglophone reader's literary map is, by default, missing most of the world. Key sections include: World Literature.; A first word What is world literature?; Chapter I The translation question.; Chapter II The Arabic tradition.; Chapter III Persian.; Chapter IV Russian, beyond the giants.; Chapter V Chinese.; Chapter VI Japanese.; Chapter VII Korean.; Chapter VIII South Asian..

Outline:
1. World Literature.
2. A first word What is world literature?
3. Chapter I The translation question.
4. Chapter II The Arabic tradition.
5. Chapter III Persian.
6. Chapter IV Russian, beyond the giants.
7. Chapter V Chinese.
8. Chapter VI Japanese.
9. Chapter VII Korean.
10. Chapter VIII South Asian.
11. Chapter IX African.
12. Chapter X Caribbean.
13. Chapter XI Latin American, after the Boom.
14. Chapter XII Northern Europe.
15. Chapter XIII Eastern Europe.
16. Chapter XIV South-East Asia and the Pacific.
17. Chapter XV Hebrew literature, modern.
18. Chapter XVI Indigenous literatures.
19. Chapter XVII The Nobel question.
20. Chapter XVIII Translators worth following.
21. Chapter XIX Twenty-eight from the world.
22. Chapter XX The forms outside the novel.
23. Chapter XXI Where to keep reading.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII What this deck did not cover.
26. Chapter XXIV An invitation.
27. The end of the deck.