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The finer grained groupings nested one level below a category, splitting a large category such as Authors or Works into smaller sets by literary tradition, genre-mode or aesthetic movement family. A subcategory entry explains the narrower principle it groups its entities by, and what it deliberately leaves for a neighboring subcategory instead.

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Academic Reference Database

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American Literature

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Ancient and Classical Literature

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Biography

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British and Irish Literature

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Byronic Heroes and Antiheroes

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Detective and Crime Fiction

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Drama and Theatre

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Dramatic Genres

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Early Modern and Neoclassical Movements

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Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

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East and Southeast Asian Literature

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East Asian Verse Forms

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Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Encyclopedia Article

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Epic and Heroic Narrative

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Extended Prose Forms

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Fixed Forms of the Romance Tradition

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French Literature

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German-Language Literature

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Historical and Chronicle Writing

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Historical Fiction and Romance

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Iberian and Latin American Literature

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Innocents and Coming-of-Age Protagonists

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Internal System Reference

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Italian Literature

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Library Exhibit Page

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Literary Reference Website

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Lyric and Short Poetic Forms

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Middle Eastern and Persian Verse Forms

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Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

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Modernism and Its Currents

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Moral Exemplars and Social Critics

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Narrative and Song Forms

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Nonfiction and Documentary Prose

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Nonfiction Prose

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Open and Experimental Verse

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Poetry

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Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature

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Postcolonial and Global Movements

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Postwar and Existentialist Movements

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Primary Text

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Primary Text Archive

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Quest Heroes and Adventurers

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Realist and Literary Fiction

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Realist and Naturalist Movements

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Reference Website

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Religious and Devotional Writing

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Romantic and Star-Crossed Figures

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Romantic and Transcendentalist Movements

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Russian and Slavic Literature

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Satire and Mystery Fiction

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Satirical and Picaresque Fiction

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Satirical, Picaresque and Comic Protagonists

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Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

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Secondary Scholarship

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Short Fiction and Fable

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Short Lyric and Epigrammatic Forms

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Short, Lyric and Nonfiction Forms

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Sonnet Forms

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South Asian Literature

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Speculative and Fantastic Fiction

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Speculative Fiction

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Study Guide

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Symbolist and Aesthetic Movements

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The Novel and Its Forms

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Tragic Heroes and Doomed Protagonists

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Villains, Monsters and Antagonists

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Web Reference

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World Traditional Verse Forms

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