English literature
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- | {{Template}}The term '''English literature''' refers to [[Anglophone]] [[literature]] , including literature composed in English by [[writer]]s not necessarily from [[England]]; [[Joseph Conrad]] was Polish, [[Robert Burns]] was Scottish, [[James Joyce]] was Irish, [[Dylan Thomas]] was Welsh, [[Edgar Allan Poe]] was American, [[Salman Rushdie]] is Indian, [[V.S. Naipaul]] is Trinidadian. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In [[academia]], the term often labels departments and programmes practising ''[[English studies]]'' in secondary and tertiary educational systems. | + | {{Template}}The term '''English literature''' refers to [[Anglophone]] [[literature]], including literature composed in English by [[writer]]s not necessarily from [[England]]; [[Joseph Conrad]] was Polish, [[Robert Burns]] was Scottish, [[James Joyce]] was Irish, [[Dylan Thomas]] was Welsh, [[Edgar Allan Poe]] was American, [[Salman Rushdie]] is Indian, [[V.S. Naipaul]] is Trinidadian. In other words, English literature is as diverse as the varieties and dialects of English spoken around the world. In [[academia]], the term often labels departments and programmes practising ''[[English studies]]'' in secondary and tertiary educational systems. |
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