Concept information
Preferred term
821Literatures of individual languages and language families
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 821.1/.2 Indo-European literature
- 821.9 Literature in artificial languages
- 821.4 Literature of Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Congo-Kordofanian, Khoisan languages
- 821.8 Literature of American indigenous languages (Amerindian literatures)
- 821.6 Literature of Austro-Asiatic languages. Austronesian literature
- 821.3 Literature of Caucasian languages. Literature of dead languages of unknown affiliation
- 821.7 Literature of Indo-Pacific (non-Austronesian) languages. Australian (Aboriginal) literature
- 821.5 Literature of Ural-Altaic, Japanese, Korean, Ainu, Palaeo-Siberian, Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian languages, Sino-Tibetan languages
Note
- The subdivisions of 821 can be derived from common auxiliaries of language =1/=9 (Table 1c) by substituting a point for the equals sign, e.g. 821.111 English literature derives from =111 English language. Only a selection of examples are enumerated here. Literature schedules are fully faceted and one can combine facets of language, place, time, special auxiliaries of literary form or periods, or special auxiliaries for theory and study of literature for any given language, in the way that is best suited to a particular need
Scope note
- Literature according to the language in which it is produced
Example
- 821.111`04 Mediaeval English literature
- 821.111(540)-1 Indian English poetry
- 821.111(540)-3=112.2 Indian English fiction, (translated) in German
- 821.112.2`04-1 Mediaeval German poetry
- 821.133.1(091) History of French literature
- 821.134.2`04.09 Mediaeval Spanish literary studies, criticism
- 821.922-1(082) Esperanto poetry, an anthology
Notation
- 821
In other languages
URI
http://udcdata.info/067891
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