Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting... 41 KB (4,217 words) - 19:04, 20 March 2024 |
Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range... 5 KB (429 words) - 08:58, 28 April 2024 |
Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, and sometimes just literature, are labels... 16 KB (1,809 words) - 18:19, 1 March 2024 |
Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting... 8 KB (877 words) - 01:54, 31 March 2024 |
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts... 155 KB (13,186 words) - 11:50, 16 April 2024 |
crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has... 85 KB (8,837 words) - 00:43, 27 March 2024 |
an overall predictable form. A literary genre may fall under either one of two categories: (a) a work of fiction, involving non-factual descriptions and... 38 KB (3,445 words) - 07:21, 1 March 2024 |
Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality... 26 KB (1,957 words) - 00:43, 28 April 2024 |
Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. Some novels combine both genres, often... 27 KB (3,312 words) - 01:13, 18 April 2024 |
Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by... 69 KB (8,010 words) - 02:32, 19 April 2024 |
The slipstream genre is a term denoting forms of speculative fiction that blends together science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction or do not remain... 8 KB (839 words) - 04:50, 13 March 2024 |
popular fiction, which is especially divided by genres, genre fiction is the more usual term. In literature, genre has been known as an intangible taxonomy.... 29 KB (3,545 words) - 11:07, 18 April 2024 |
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized... 18 KB (2,020 words) - 23:01, 14 April 2024 |
Fantasy (redirect from Fantasy (genre)) Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fantasy world and usually inspired by mythology or folklore. The... 39 KB (4,748 words) - 15:41, 27 April 2024 |
stories fall under both genres simultaneously (for instance, the James Bond series can be classified as both). Military fiction: A story about a war or... 146 KB (19,083 words) - 00:39, 16 April 2024 |
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890... 50 KB (5,381 words) - 01:02, 10 March 2024 |
more genres", which may combine elements of more than one genre and/or which may "cut across categories such as fact and fiction". Some such sub-genres have... 8 KB (763 words) - 13:44, 28 September 2023 |
that genre. Genre fiction is storytelling driven by plot, as opposed to literary fiction, which focuses more on theme and character. Genre fiction, or... 12 KB (1,565 words) - 22:09, 8 April 2024 |
music genre is a conventional category (i.e, genre) that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is... 37 KB (4,128 words) - 19:45, 24 April 2024 |
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... 21 KB (2,860 words) - 09:37, 15 April 2024 |
Pulp magazine (redirect from Pulp fiction (genre)) television by the 1950s. Pulp magazines often contained a wide variety of genre fiction, including, but not limited to: adventure aviation detective/mystery... 36 KB (4,319 words) - 07:28, 27 March 2024 |
drew on the classic interests of the genre. From these, the Gothic genre per se gave way to modern horror fiction, regarded by some literary critics as... 91 KB (10,611 words) - 01:47, 25 April 2024 |