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This article was brought to my attention on another talk page and has made me wonder if it should include a section for European literature in the Turkic languages (i.e. Azerbaijani and Turkish). I feel that if we want to list the literature of all European nationalities then we ought to include Azerbaijani and Turkish as well. --Kutsuit ( talk) 17:05, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
This article refers to European Literature as a synonym for Western literature: "Western literature refers to the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European language family as well as several geographically or historically related languages such as Basque, Hungarian, and so forth. Western literature is considered one of the defining elements of Western civilization."
Encyclopædia Britannica: "Western literature, history of literatures in the languages of the Indo-European family, along with a small number of other languages whose cultures became closely associated with the West, from ancient times to the present.
Diverse as they are, European literatures, like European languages, are parts of a common heritage. Greek, Latin, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic, Celtic, and Romance languages are all members of the Indo-European family. (Finnish and Hungarian and Semitic languages of the eastern Mediterranean, such as Hebrew, are not Indo-European. Literatures in these languages are, however, closely associated with major Western literatures and are often included among them.) The common literary heritage is essentially that originating in ancient Greece and Rome. It was preserved, transformed, and spread by Christianity and thus transmitted to the vernacular languages of the European Continent, the Western Hemisphere, and other regions that were settled by Europeans. To the present day, this body of writing displays a unity in its main features that sets it apart from the literatures of the rest of the world. Such common characteristics are considered here." here -- IIIraute ( talk) 18:14, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Martin Travers, European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006 here
Goethe-Institut: "European Literature Goes to Turkey/Turkish Literature Goes to Europe" here -- IIIraute ( talk) 20:26, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
"The classic Russian fiction and drama have long ago been adopted by the Western world and made part of the Western canon.", Russian Literature and Culture at Stanford, Stanford University here
On "my original research", please see: Thomas Woods, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Regnery Publishing, 2012 here -- IIIraute ( talk) 15:36, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Philip Gaskell, Landmarks in European Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, preface:
"This book introduces thirty-two key works of European literature in translation to ordinary readers. Ranging from Dante's Divine Comedy to Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Philip Gaskell takes a canon of recognised literary classics and introduces each work, setting it in the literary and historical contexts of its times. The selection of works cover the main genres of poetry, prose and drama, and the other authors included are Petrarch, Villon, Ronsard, Montaigne, Cervantes, Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Pushkin, Lermontov, Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Ibsen, Strindberg, Hamsun, Chekhov, Gorky, Zola, Fontane, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Pirandello." -- IIIraute ( talk) 22:43, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
I changed the name of this article from "European literature" to "List of European literatures" in order to include the literatures of all countries that are either wholly or partially in Europe. Wikipedia already has an article on European literature as understood, by some, to mean "Western literature", which can be found here: /info/en/?search=Western_literature. --Nadia (Kutsuit) ( talk) 13:15, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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This article was brought to my attention on another talk page and has made me wonder if it should include a section for European literature in the Turkic languages (i.e. Azerbaijani and Turkish). I feel that if we want to list the literature of all European nationalities then we ought to include Azerbaijani and Turkish as well. --Kutsuit ( talk) 17:05, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
This article refers to European Literature as a synonym for Western literature: "Western literature refers to the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European language family as well as several geographically or historically related languages such as Basque, Hungarian, and so forth. Western literature is considered one of the defining elements of Western civilization."
Encyclopædia Britannica: "Western literature, history of literatures in the languages of the Indo-European family, along with a small number of other languages whose cultures became closely associated with the West, from ancient times to the present.
Diverse as they are, European literatures, like European languages, are parts of a common heritage. Greek, Latin, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic, Celtic, and Romance languages are all members of the Indo-European family. (Finnish and Hungarian and Semitic languages of the eastern Mediterranean, such as Hebrew, are not Indo-European. Literatures in these languages are, however, closely associated with major Western literatures and are often included among them.) The common literary heritage is essentially that originating in ancient Greece and Rome. It was preserved, transformed, and spread by Christianity and thus transmitted to the vernacular languages of the European Continent, the Western Hemisphere, and other regions that were settled by Europeans. To the present day, this body of writing displays a unity in its main features that sets it apart from the literatures of the rest of the world. Such common characteristics are considered here." here -- IIIraute ( talk) 18:14, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
Martin Travers, European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006 here
Goethe-Institut: "European Literature Goes to Turkey/Turkish Literature Goes to Europe" here -- IIIraute ( talk) 20:26, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
"The classic Russian fiction and drama have long ago been adopted by the Western world and made part of the Western canon.", Russian Literature and Culture at Stanford, Stanford University here
On "my original research", please see: Thomas Woods, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Regnery Publishing, 2012 here -- IIIraute ( talk) 15:36, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Philip Gaskell, Landmarks in European Literature, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, preface:
"This book introduces thirty-two key works of European literature in translation to ordinary readers. Ranging from Dante's Divine Comedy to Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Philip Gaskell takes a canon of recognised literary classics and introduces each work, setting it in the literary and historical contexts of its times. The selection of works cover the main genres of poetry, prose and drama, and the other authors included are Petrarch, Villon, Ronsard, Montaigne, Cervantes, Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Pushkin, Lermontov, Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Ibsen, Strindberg, Hamsun, Chekhov, Gorky, Zola, Fontane, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Pirandello." -- IIIraute ( talk) 22:43, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
I changed the name of this article from "European literature" to "List of European literatures" in order to include the literatures of all countries that are either wholly or partially in Europe. Wikipedia already has an article on European literature as understood, by some, to mean "Western literature", which can be found here: /info/en/?search=Western_literature. --Nadia (Kutsuit) ( talk) 13:15, 21 May 2014 (UTC)