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New Literature SE Topic Challenge Suggestions Thread

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Announcing the April–May 2021 topic challenge: Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Announcing the January–February 2021 topic challenge: Theodor Fontane

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How do we ensure that questions on this site attract scholars and enthusiasts?

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Where can I find glossaries of literary, poetic and rhetorical terms?

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Are questions about translations in general on-topic?

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What are some good (legal) resources for finding the text of books?

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Announcing the December 2020–January 2021 topic challenge: literary theory

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Announcing the March–April 2021 topic challenge: Mem and Zin (Mam û Zîn)

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Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2020

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2020: a year in moderation

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List of bounties with no deadline

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Submit your literature reviews to our Tumblr!

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Announcing the November–December 2020 topic challenge: Ko Un

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Announcing the February–March 2021 topic challenge: Os Lusíadas / The Lusiads

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How do we deal with tags in composite works such as the Bible?

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Proposal: rename [story-identification] to [identification-request]

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Promote our site and earn a Booster badge or a Publicist badge!

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What to do with identification request answers that are confirmed to be inaccurate?

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Announcing the October–November 2020 topic challenge: Rabindranath Tagore

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Are there literature forums for discussing literature in general?

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Why were my questions about two books by Cornelius Ryan on war not answered?

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Synonymise tags such as french-literature and portuguese-literature with tags such as francophone-literature, lusophone-literature etc?

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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2020

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Announcing the September–October 2020 topic challenge: Nick Joaquin

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Should dictionaries be on-topic?

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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature: Louise Glück

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Announcing the August–September 2020 topic challenge: the Shahnameh

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I've been told my question is better suited to a forum, but where should I go?

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Websites to ask for specific book recommendations [duplicate]

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Rule for selecting a topic challenge among those with the same number of votes

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Should we have an [unreliable-narrator] tag?

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Announcing the July–August 2020 topic challenge: The Tale of Genji

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Do we want a migration path from ELU?

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Should recommendation questions be on-topic?

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Policy on questions based on homework or tests

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Guidelines for migration from Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Are questions about non-famous works and authors (English or a foreign language) on-topic here?

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Are questions about authors on-topic?

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Are questions about music on-topic (part 2)?

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Suggestion: a popular culture/pop cul tag be added

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Should we get rid of specific genre tags for good?

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questions which are excerpts from war and books.of detection

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Guidelines for good story-id questions?

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Please include descriptions of your images

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Announcing the June–July reading challenge: Korean Folklore

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Do we need a children's literature tag?

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Should tags for genres and other literary terms consistently be in singular form?

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