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MAJOR FIELD: English studies/literature

Option 1

 * Romantic poetry: Romantic poetry:This article seems to have a decent foundation to build and continue to make edits from. There is enough information present to venture down several different avenues/subsections. With all of those ideas in mind, it's still not a very long article, so there is definitely room for more sections to be added. Additionally, there are plenty of areas that do not have citations attached to them (the section titled "Characteristics of English Romantic Poetry" is one obvious example). :The sections seem to focus in on each countries contribution to romantic poetry, but this is a sticky situation to fall into because each country, ideally, should be represented equally (which is not an easy task). It might be beneficial to include more general notions of romantic poetry rather than zeroing in on the countries right away. On the other hand, this could be a great opportunity to add to the underrepresented countries that have made it onto the list (ie. Sweden or Poland).:This article is part of the WikiProject Poetry and is considered start-class/high-importance.
 * Thomson, Heidi. "Why Romantic Poetry Still Matters." Romanticism (Edinburgh), vol. 26, no. 1, 2020, pp. 38-49.
 * Langan, Celeste, and Maureen N. McLane. The medium of Romantic poetry. na, 2008.:
 * Langan, Celeste, and Maureen N. McLane. The medium of Romantic poetry. na, 2008.:

Option 2

 * Oral literature: Oral literature:This article has a solid intro that is concise and seems to give a fair overview of oral literature. There is some in-text citation work that needs to be done. The "History of oral literature" section, and various other parts of this article, have chunks of uncited text that need to be verified. The "Deaf culture" section only has one sentence (needing a citation), which could definitely be expanded on. This section in particular could be a worthwhile segment to flesh out.:This article contains some writing that comes across as biased and should be revised to fit a neutral tone.:There is potential to add sections dedicated to specific groups with a strong tradition of passing down stories/history through oral literature.:Also, just brainstorming, it could be interesting to add some research on how oral literature is tied to the advent of the digital age (ie. how video sharing/films have effected this topic).:This article is of interest to the WikiProject Literature and is start-class/high-importance.:
 * BAUMAN, H-DIRKSEN L. ""Redesigning" Literature: The Cinematic Poetics of American Sign Language Poetry." Sign language studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2003, pp. 34-47. Sandler, Wendy, Marianne Gullberg, and Carol Padden. "Editorial: Visual Language." Frontiers in psychology, vol. 10, 2019, pp. 1765.

Option 3

 * Gothic Fiction: Gothic fiction:Considering I don't know much about gothic fiction, this article does present a wide variety of information. There is plenty of information that is cited and seems well-sourced, but the article lacks cohesion. The information could be more organized, and some sections would benefit from less bombardment of name-dropping and instead actually expand on some of the sources given. The "Other media" section is almost entirely lacking sources, which is a shame because there is some good example presented throughout.:The "Contemporary gothic" section could use some more info and examples. It could be fleshed out to describe some of the characteristics that make this contemporary version different from its older counterpart. :
 * Hurley, Zoe, and Zeina Hojeij. "Coming-of-Age of Teenage Female Arab Gothic Fiction: A Feminist Semiotic Study." Humanities (Basel), vol. 12, no. 1, 2023, pp. 19. Morin, Tiffany. "Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others ed. by Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi (review)." Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 1, 2022, pp. 124-127. Pataki, Jelena. "Gothic Fiction Elements in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (2011)." Anafora (Osijek, Croatia), vol. 3, no. 2, 2016, pp. 225-242.

Option 4

 * Naturalism (literature): Naturalism (literature):My first impression of this article was that the intro is a bit convoluted because it uses other literary terms to define its own. The beginning is likely difficult to follow for someone who has no prior knowledge of these terms. The intro could be amended to actually include sources and also use more concise language. The citations need some work because the writers make claims without backing them up.:It feels like this article should be longer but there's just not a whole lot of info on the page. I don't see the stub tag anywhere on the page, but this article is short enough to where I would consider it a stub. More sections could be added about the different eras/kinds of naturalism we see throughout history (instead of only focusing on the American aspects). :Also, there is plenty of room for more literature to be added to this article. If we're talking about naturalism there might as well be a plethora of examples, and maybe some of the examples could be expanded upon. :
 * MILLER, MELISSA. "Chekhov and Zola's Naturalism." The Russian review (Stanford), vol. 79, no. 2, 2020, pp. 293-308. Oppy, Graham. "NATURALISM." Think : philosophy for everyone, vol. 19, no. 56, 2020, pp. 7-20.

Option 5

 * Visual poetry: Visual poetry:This article is rather short, but I could see so much being added and revised on this page. The intro could use a source for the info presented. Some of the body remains uncited but it seems like the person is directly quoting people at times (this could be changed to fit Wiki's rules of how to paraphrase). There is only one body section of the article and much of the info (like in the 2nd and 5th paragraphs) has no citations attached. Rather than talking about what visual poetry is, this article only seems to give definitions and examples of what it isn't. :There is big possibilities with this article to give more concrete answers as to what visual poetry is/entails; how new media and the digital age has influenced visual poetry. There could be distinctions drawn between the different kinds of visual poetry and what is considered to be visual poetry.:There is also room for signed languages to be given a section. I think this following this avenue would be a fruitful venture. The discussion could include perspectives from Deaf culture and other sources that consider signed poetry to be under the umbrella of visual poetry. Also, this section could include some of the features of signing/signed poetry that make it a visual art.::
 * Huth, Geof. “Visual Poetry Today.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, 6 Nov. 2008, www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/69141/visual-poetry-today.
 * Cook, Peter S. "Features in American Sign Language Storytelling." Storytelling, self, society, vol. 7, no. 1, 2011, pp. 36-62. Sutton-Spence, Rachel, and Ronice M. de Quadros. ""I Am The Book"—Deaf Poets' Views on Signed Poetry." Journal of deaf studies and deaf education, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014, pp. 546-558.