literary traditions
Written heritage practices
Literary traditions are the inherited conventions, forms, themes, and techniques that writers absorb from predecessors and pass to successors.
A tradition might be regional the Southern Gothic tradition, formal the sonnet tradition, or thematic the tradition of pastoral poetry.
Writers work within traditions, against them, or both—innovation often means knowing what came before well enough to depart from it meaningfully.
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- Japanese haikuThree-line, seventeen-syllable verse
- AllegoryStory representing abstract ideas
folklore · magic realism · Enlightenment · cultural heritage · classical antiquity · Greek tragedy · intertextuality · oral · canon · lineage · influence · epic · heritage · ancient · storytelling · classical · manuscript · verse
- cultural historyart history, music history, cultural artifacts, cultural memory, cultural movements
- humanitiesphilosophy, history, philosophy class, novels, humanities
- literary studiescriticism, literary history, modernism, literary movements, literary themes
- Arab literature
- literary criticismliterary theory, literary analysis, close reading, New Criticism, criticism
- Korean LiteraturePachinko, Korean translations, translated works, novels, literary heritage
literary traditionsoral traditions
Culture transmitted through speech
oral culture · oral history · oral storytelling · storytelling traditions · folk traditions
literary traditionspopular culture
Mainstream societal trends
pulp fiction · folk culture · genre fiction · fan fiction · folk literature
literary traditionsliterary innovation
Novel technique in writing
iconoclasm · avant-garde · anti-traditionalism · anti-tradition · breaking with tradition