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Czech literature

(Encyclopedia)Czech literature, literary works that constitute part of the Czech culture and, except for some early compositions written in liturgical languages, is in the Czech language. After 1890 realism gaine...

Old Norse literature

(Encyclopedia)Old Norse literature, the literature of the Northmen, or Norsemen, c.850–c.1350. It survives mainly in Icelandic writings, for little medieval vernacular literature remains from Norway, Sweden, or D...

Celtic literature

(Encyclopedia)Celtic literature: see Breton literature; Cornish literature; Gaelic literature; Welsh literature. ...

Swedish literature

(Encyclopedia)Swedish literature, literary works in the Swedish language. In the early 20th cent. the fiction of Hjalmar Söderberg presaged a renewed emphasis on restraint and realism. Ludvig Nordström, Gust...

Yugoslav literature

(Encyclopedia)Yugoslav or South Slav literature, literature written in Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, and, especially after World War II, Macedonian languages. The Serbian and Croatian literary languages are similar an...

Belgian literature

(Encyclopedia)Belgian literature. For literature in Flemish (Dutch), see Dutch and Flemish literature. The writings of French-speaking Belgians, of whom the chief are Maeterlinck and Verhaeren, belong to French lit...

Japanese literature

(Encyclopedia)Japanese literature, literary works produced in the language of the islands of Japan. See also Asian drama. The immense public demand for fiction in postwar Japan has been fed by the prolific o...

Austrian literature

(Encyclopedia)Austrian literature: see German literature. ...

Roman literature

(Encyclopedia)Roman literature: see Latin literature. ...

Irish literature

(Encyclopedia)Irish literature: see Gaelic literature. ...