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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2023
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Is the [writing-process] tag worth it?
The tag writing-process is for questions about the writing process of a particular author or a particular piece of literature. It currently has 5 extant questions but also 23 closed/deleted questions ...
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Announcing the November–December 2023 topic challenge: Alberto Moravia
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Announcing the October–November 2023 topic challenge: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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New Literature SE Topic Challenge Suggestions Thread
Topic challenges for Literature SE were first proposed and enacted in March 2017. The motivation for these, as well as to bring our users together in a community activity of reading the same books or ...
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Announcing the September–October 2023 topic challenge: Sarojini Naidu
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Announcing the May–June 2021 topic challenge: the Mahabharata and its adaptations
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What should be our standard for closing identification-request questions as duplicates?
This question is motivated by the following three questions:
(A) Lawyer sacrifices life for his activist friend by taking his place in prison
(B) Can't remember book title: a journalist converses ...
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Which language tag should we use for troubadour poetry?
On Literature.SE we have language tags for non-English literarture. However, I'm not sure about the language tag we should use for troubadour literature. According to Wikipedia, troubadour poetry is ...
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Announcing the July–August 2023 topic challenge: Jamaica Kincaid
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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2023
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, the purpose of which is to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to ...
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Timeline of Literature moderators
Inspired by Timeline of Parenting moderators, this post is intended to record the history of Literature SE diamond moderator teams over time. To make it an actual "question":
Who has ...
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Special thanks to Mithical for their role in helping to resolve the recent moderation strike
For those that aren't aware, our very own Mithical was instrumental in helping to resolve the recent dispute (and subsequent strike) regarding moderating ChatGPT content on the Stack Exchange network. ...
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Are questions about writing techniques on topic here?
When we write questions on this site, are we allowed to ask questions on writing techniques?
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According to Area 51:
Beta Q&A site for scholars and enthusiasts of literature....
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Announcing the June–July 2023 topic challenge: the works of Ales Adamovich
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Just added the art-history tag - worthwhile?
The title should be fairly clear. I asked a question connected with the history and/or appreciation of art and it struck me that this was a topic that overlaps literature with a reasonable frequency - ...
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How will we avoid literature snobbery?
Literary analysis, and literature in general, is prone to a lot of cliquish cross-subject sniping and condescension. Bardolatry and the Authorship Question, the validity/dignity of [romance novels/YA ...
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Literature is graduating on December 16th, 2021!
All of your hard work has paid off: We're officially graduating!
The Community Managers have confirmed that as part of their ongoing work on site lifecycles, as of December 16, 2021, Literature.SE ...
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Announcing the May–June 2023 topic challenge: the works of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Why do we have to edit at least 6 characters?
Very recently, I clicked the edit button on a question.
It had a misspelling of just one letter.
But after I clicked the save my edit button, an error message popped up saying the edit should at least ...
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Announcing the April–May 2023 topic challenge: the works of Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Can questions about a movie/TV show/video be on-topic? If so, which ones?
We had a recent question about a series of YouTube videos. The question boiled down to "this line seemed to reference something that was said in a previous video, what is it referring to?"
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Should we allow questions asking for identification of the outputs of language models?
A user new to the site recently asked for the identification of a poem output by a large language model (some version of OpenAI's ChatGPT). The user had asked the model for a poem in German on a given ...
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Announcing the March–April 2023 topic challenge: Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / Philosophus Autodidactus
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Etiquette for using this SE's ideas in an academic environment
I am currently exploring The Great Gatsby with a peer group and was wondering what the etiquette is for referencing the ideas of people on Literature SE who have generously shared their thoughts on my ...
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Are questions about music on-topic (part 2)?
This site has recently received four questions about music that go beyond looking looking at the lyrics, and ask about the sound music makes:
Is Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall" ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #2 on Literature has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2023
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, the purpose of which is to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023
Literature Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on March 28, as your “graduation” election!
The timeline:
On March 21, we'll post a question collection post on Meta, so that ...
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Submit your literature reviews to our Tumblr!
Most of you probably aren't aware that Literature.SE has an unofficial Tumblr blog, called One Minute Reviews. This is supposed to be where Literature.SE users can submit short reviews of basically ...
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I've been told my question is better suited to a forum, but where should I go?
This question was adopted/stolen from the RPG Stack Exchange's Meta.
I asked a question about literature that was closed. Someone recommended that I try posting the question on another website. What ...
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Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2022
Here's the latest instalment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some links to particularly good Literature Q&A for showcasing our site.
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Announcing the February–March 2023 topic challenge: the works of Arthur Koestler
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2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Literature Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Do we want to accept "how do I start?" type questions?
I recently encountered this question, which is basically asking for general advice on how to start learning about British Literature on her own (possibly with a goal of improving English skills). As ...
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How do I tag questions properly?
How do I tag questions properly?
I see that all questions here have tags, but I do not understand the reason behind the tags. What are the tagging rules?
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Is it acceptable to remove spoiler blockquotes from questions and answers?
We recently discussed spoilers on this site, and the consensus was that while spoilers in titles should be avoided, spoilers in the body of questions/answers were acceptable, and therefore that ...
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Graduation election: interest check [duplicate]
Literature Stack Exchange left beta in December 2021. This meant, among other things, that we might have "full-site moderator elections" (or "graduation election") scheduled in ...
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How do we ensure that questions on this site attract scholars and enthusiasts?
Intro: Building our Community
Our tour says that we aim to be "a question and answer site for scholars and enthusiasts of literature." I'm definitely an enthusiast, and I have a fair bit of ...
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Announcing the December 2022–January 2023 topic challenge: the works of Min Jin Lee
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Announcing the January–February 2023 topic challenge: sign language literature
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Let's choose an example question for the Tour (restrictions can be lifted)
Edit after voting on answers: Why does the Iliad start "in the middle"? has emerged as the favourite choice for the new example Tour question. I'm now tagging this meta post as status-review ...
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Do we want tags for literary movements and periods?
The recent question What's wrong with the "beat literature" tag? has turned into a broader discussion that touches on general policy, i.e. whether we should have tags for literary movements ...
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What are some good (legal) resources for finding the text of books?
Many good answers on this site are going to require quoting passages of the text of a novel, poem, play, or other piece of literature. Thus, knowing where to find such passages is going to be very ...
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What's wrong with the "beat literature" tag?
There have been several questions about beat literature recently which weren't tied to the work of individual authors like Kerouac or Ginsberg. The tags they were given - poetry and history of ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Policy on literary interpretations from non-native English speakers
Although English is not my first language , I like to discuss its literature. Recently my answer (in response to a question on poetic metaphor) was downvoted and it struck me that the original poster ...
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Best Questions & Answers from 3rd Quarter of 2022
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some links to particularly good Literature Q&A for showcasing our site.
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Announcing the November–December 2022 topic challenge: Nazi Holocaust literature
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it is time to announce the ...
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