Emerson and the Concord Circle
4 questions
Four questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson, his Concord circle and the Transcendentalist movement, drawn from this wave's own research.
Genres, Movements and Forms
4 questions
Four questions on how this atlas classifies literature: by what a work is, by when and among whom it was written, and by what shape it takes on the page.
Genres, Movements and Forms: Where They Actually Came From
5 questions
Five questions on the origins of literary genres, movements and forms, drawn from this wave's own depth research.
Genres, Parody and the Founding Novels
5 questions
Five questions on the genres and works this wave added: satire, chivalric romance, and the authors and novels that answered them.
Origins and Open Questions: Genres, Movements and Forms
5 questions
Five questions on where literature's genres, movements and forms actually began, and where scholars still disagree.
Poetic and Prose Forms
5 questions
Five questions on the fixed and free forms this wave added to the atlas: the sonnet, the villanelle, the sestina, the ghazal and blank verse.