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Is A Supplement to the Journey to the West from the 17th century the oldest Chinese work of literature involving time travel?

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Earliest work of fiction in which characters using telepathy can't lie

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What is the strongest theoretical epistemology about literary (or cultural) “periods”?

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Was there a unified "First World War poetry" movement (during the war itself)?

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Who originated "The Life and Lies of xxx"?

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Were there any kind of 'fictional' prosaic or dramatic works in ancient Israel?

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What is an epic and why is there “only one epic in English Language so far”?

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Unique words/vocabulary - Sufficient or necessary condition to determine original source?

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What is the most recent epistolary novel written in English that consists entirely out of back and forth letters between two characters?

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What's the oldest example of the floating timeline device in fiction?

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The first Manx novel?

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Use of "limited third-person point of view", vs "omniscient third person point of view" over the past century or so

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Romanticism and knowledge/intellectualism

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Does romanticism tend towards anti-science and anti-technology?

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