A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally...
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Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms...
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Renaissance Neo-Platonist philosophy. A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even...
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Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, and sometimes just literature, are labels...
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to describe pamphlets in general, it became primarily applicable to the genre of brief and defamatory attacks on pre-revolutionary French public figures...
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response to the film. Drawing heavily from the theories of literary-genre criticism, film genres are usually delineated by "conventions, iconography, settings...
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Crónica is a literary genre that combines journalistic reporting with a literary flair. Crónica has evolved over centuries, beginning with the early European...
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Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized...
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fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance...
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and composition studies. Literary genre studies is a structuralist approach to the study of genre and genre theory in literary theory, film theory, and...
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A hybrid genre is a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres. Works in hybrid genres are also referred...
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Fantastic (redirect from Fantastic (literary genre))
Skin Companion EP 2 Fantasy, a genre of speculative fiction also known as fantastic literature. Fantastique, a genre of writing Fantastic (magazine)...
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Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction...
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literature, the dative. In the imperial period, the elogium became a literary genre: texts were collected by Marcus Terentius Varro and Titus Pomponius...
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(or occasionally vicious) parody of the latter genre. Satire: Often strictly defined as a literary genre or form, though in practice it is also found in...
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A Biblical genre is a classification of Bible literature according to literary genre. The genre of a particular Bible passage is ordinarily identified...
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Bildungsroman (redirect from Coming-of-age (literary genre))
plural bildungsromane, German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːnə]) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist...
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comparable to that of Tsurezuregusa by the Japanese monk Yoshida Kenkō. The genre flourished in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The following authors...
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A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be...
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a part of erotic literature and a genre of fiction that portrays sex or sexual themes, generally in a more literary or serious way than the fiction seen...
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A literary fairy tale is a fairy tale that differs from an oral folktale in that it is written by "a single identifiable author", as defined by Jens Tismar's...
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Slipstream fiction (redirect from Slipstream (genre))
Slipstream is a literary genre or category of speculative fiction that blends together science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction or does not remain...
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reasoning. Even though the most well-known form of literary nonsense is nonsense verse, the genre is present in many forms of literature. The effect of...
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Literature (redirect from LiteraryArt)
synonymously with literary fiction, fiction written with the goal of artistic merit, but can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography...
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Adventure fiction (redirect from Adventure fiction (genre))
the literary definition of romance fiction. In the Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction, Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre as follows:...
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Alternate history (redirect from Alternative history (literary genre))
McKnight, Edgar Vernon Jr. Alternative History: The Development of a Literary Genre. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994. Morgan, Glyn, and...
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Action fiction (redirect from Action genre)
experience. Action fiction can also be a plot element of non-literary works. Action genre is a form of fiction whose subject matter is characterized by...
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Science fiction (redirect from Science fiction genre)
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...
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Mystery fiction (redirect from Mystery (genre))
Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within...
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Creative nonfiction (redirect from Literary journalism)
(also known as literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques...
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