literature
Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome--strongly encouraged, even.#### Description Welcome to /r/literature, a community for deeper discussions of plays, poetry, short stories, and novels. Discussions of literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, and critical theory are also welcome--strongly encouraged, even.
##Rules
1. Required in all posts:
- - Relevance: Submissions must relate to literature, literary criticism, literary history, literary theory, or literary news.
- - Analysis: Submissions must include poster's own analysis in either the body or the comments of a post.
- - Content: Do not submit posts that contain questions and no other content.
2. No homework
Do not request help on homework or curriculum assignments. This includes posting surveys.
3. No book recommendations
Do not post requests for book recommendations. This includes editions and translations.
4. No advertising or self-promotion
Do not submit any form of advertising or self promotion. This includes self-published work, social media sites ,medium, youtube, apps etc. If in doubt, ask first, but as a rule we dont allow this type of content.
5. No pics or memes
Do not submit purely image links.
6. No "inspirational" quotes
Do not post quotes or excerpts from a work without analyzing it.
7. No silly videos
Do not submit videos vaguely related to literature.
8. No spoilers
Spoilers must be marked by an alert and obscured with Reddit editor's spoiler masking system.
Sister Subreddits
/r/literatures
/r/AskLiteraryStudies
/r/badliterarystudies
Friends in the Arts
/r/ArtsHub
/r/BookClub
/r/Cinephiles
/r/LitVideos
/r/Poetry
/r/ProsePorn
/r/ShortStoriesCritique
/r/Verse
/r/WeirdLit
/r/Writing
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