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Announcing the April–May 2023 topic challenge: the works of Abdulrazak Gurnah
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the April–...
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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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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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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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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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Announcing the March–April 2023 topic challenge: Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / Philosophus Autodidactus
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the March–...
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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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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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Announcing the February–March 2023 topic challenge: the works of Arthur Koestler
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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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.
One use for this post could be ...
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Should we tag according to language, or according to the type of literature that the authors identify with?
Andrey Kurkov writes in Russian, but identifies his books as Ukrainian literature. He strongly feels that it's reductionist to only identify books originally written in the Ukrainian language as ...
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Announcing the January–February 2023 topic challenge: sign language literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the December 2022–January 2023 topic challenge: the works of Min Jin Lee
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the November–December 2022 topic challenge: Nazi Holocaust literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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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.
One use for this post could be ...
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Announcing the October–November 2022 topic challenge: Stanisław Lem
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time (okay, sorry, overdue)...
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Why was my answer deleted?
My answer to this question was deleted.
The criticism by the mod is that it "doesn't" answer the question. But given that it disputes the basis on which the question was made, I cannot ...
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"Scholarly entry-point" questions should be on-topic, and not considered recommendations
LitSE considers recommendation questions off topic. This seems pretty sensible to me; I imagine they generate a lot of vague discussion that doesn't suit a question-answer site.
I propose that ...
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Announcing the September–October 2022 topic challenge: Lasha Bugadze
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Best Questions & Answers from 2nd 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.
One use for this post could be ...
Rand al'ThorMod
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Announcing the August–September 2022 topic challenge: the Koran
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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How do I ask a good question about the meaning of a passage?
I'm having trouble understanding a passage in a book I'm reading. How do I ask a good question about it on Literature Stack Exchange? What information do I need to include to help people find the ...
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Does this stack accept requests for identifying short stories? [duplicate]
Does this stack accept posts requesting assistance in identifying the title of a particular short story?
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Announcing the July–August 2022 topic challenge: Ukrainian Literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the July–...
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How do I ask for examples without my question being deleted for "recommendations" violations?
How do I ask for examples of discussion and debate within literacy circles as part of a larger, more in depth, answer, so that a moderator won't misunderstand the question and delete it as a "...
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Announcing the June–July 2022 topic challenge: Isabelle Eberhardt
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the June–...
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Announcing the May–June 2022 topic challenge: Georg Büchner
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the May–...
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Best Questions & Answers from 1st Quarter of 2022
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase our site.
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Announcing the April–May 2022 topic challenge: “Omenuko,” by Pita Nwana
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time (okay, almost a month ...
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How should the accepted-answer feature be changed?
In March 2017, not very long after Literature Stack Exchange had launched, Hamlet asked, Is the accepted answer feature good for this site? In his question, he wrote,
The thing about accepting an ...
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How to refer to religious texts on this site?
Our site scope has established that both fiction and non-fiction can be on-topic, and so are questions about religious texts. The latter meta discussion included some asides about how religious texts ...
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Announcing the March–April 2022 topic challenge: medieval Arthurian literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the March–...
Rand al'ThorMod
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I abstain from reviewing in favor of things I personally dislike; is this a problem?
This post is about one of my guilty secrets. Yes, my guilty secrets involve the intricacies of boring moderation. I am weird like that.
There are times when I know (or highly suspect), by the letter ...
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2021: 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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Why was my edit removing links to movie scenes on YouTube rejected?
I suggested an edit to a question which contained 2 links to movie scenes on YouTube by accounts which do not seem to be authorized to post the footage publicly. The first video has already been taken ...
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Should we rethink our policy on story identification questions / identification requests?
Almost a year ago, verbose asked How do we ensure that questions on this site attract scholars and enthusiasts? In my second answer to that question, I wrote that identification-request questions are ...
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Best Questions & Answers from 4th Quarter of 2021
Here's the latest installment in the regular best-of-quarter collections, intended to gather some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to showcase our site.
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Announcing the February–March 2022 topic challenge: the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Do we want the site statistics on the home page back?
Until the day we graduated (16 December) we had a small table with site statistics on the home page. This has always been a feature specific to beta sites, so it was removed after we graduated. In my ...
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Do we want video embedding to be enabled on Literature?
Some Stack Exchange sites have video embedding turned on, which means that a Youtube link can be simply pasted into a post as plaintext and it will automatically render as an inline box within which ...
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Linking related [identification-request] questions
Shouldn't there be a way to link identification-request questions that are essentially asking for the same title even though the OP might be mistaken of the details when the question was asked?
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Phrasing of 'Duplicate' Close Reason
We currently have a question gathering close votes as a duplicate. Short story about a young boy living in South Africa during Apartheid
The close reason specifically says 'This question has been ...
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Please take the time to tailor-write comments for new users' questions
I saw this today:
The second comment there is attributed to the Community user, which is a feature from the last review queue update. And... it's significantly less useful than the first one.* While ...
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Would it be on-topic to ask on Literature what was the name of, URL of, or what happened to, that Philip Larkin online forum last seen about 2005?
Would it be on-topic to ask on Literature what was the name of, the URL of,or what happened to that Philip Larkin online forum that seems to have disappeared from the internet? I saw it in about the ...
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Announcing the January–February 2022 topic challenge: R. A. Lafferty
UPDATE: during its second month (February 2022), this topic challenge will be held jointly with Science Fiction & Fantasy SE. Note that, for written sci-fi stories, the two sites' scopes don't ...
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Should I ask on Literature whether it's true that streets in Ireland in 1955 were "end-on to hills", more often than those in England?
Philip Larkin's 1955 poem "The Importance of Elsewhere" implies that Irish streets are often end-on to hills.
This answer on Stack Exchange Meta contains the suggestion that the answer to ...
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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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How do I ask a question about literature that I don't know exists, but which the people answering it do, without the question being "open ended"?
I've had a number of occasions when I've tried asking questions relating to books or other pieces of literature that fall into an extremely niche genre, but which I cannot name individually because I ...
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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?
People keep editing the tags on my questions. ...
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