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A Literary fragment is a (usually) short piece of text that may be part of a larger work, or one intentionally constructed as fragmentary in form. There are several different types of literary fragment that generally fit into two distinct categories that can be described as unintentional and intentional fragments.

Unintentional fragments include unfinished works of literature as well as the remaining parts of a text subsequently lost, destroyed or degraded.

Intentional fragments include works of literature which employ a fragmentary form, often collecting many short fragments to create a whole.

However, critics have noted that the fragment is difficult to define, and that the categories above are not always clear, such as is the case with works of literature intentionally left unfinished.

In Literary Theory

In Philosophy

In Antiquity

Literary fragments refers to the discovered remains of a text which has otherwise been lost, destroyed, or has degraded over time. This type of literary fragment also includes works which are quoted in other texts but for which no original document can be found, such as in the case of Heraclitus.

The search for historical fragments began around

Notable examples of historical fragments include

Subheading: The Romantic Period

The fragment as a literary form first arose during this period, beginning with a group of German writers associated with the Jena school. The Jena Romantics Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis saw the fragment as a literary form in its own right that offered freedom from the limitations imposed by traditional genres, rather than as something unfinished or incomplete.

This idea was continued in the work of the English Romantic poets who saw the potential of the fragmented form to express insights "that went beyond established forms and genres".

Modernism

Post-modernism

Contemporary

In literary theory/criticism

The fragment is a somewhat controversial topic in literary criticism, in part because of the difficulty in determining what actually constitutes a fragment.