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Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
Abbreviated online version of the print publication which explores genre literature.
Paradoxa publishes articles on genre literature: science fiction, horror, mysteries, children's literature, romance, comic studies, the fantastic, best sellers, the occult, westerns, oral literature, and more
Paradoxa invites submissions on all aspects of genre literature (written, oral, drawn or designed) which make a significant and original contribution to the study of those genres
Internet Collections by Period, Genre, Etc.: Literature: MIT Libraries
A collection of internet resources devoted primarily to English and American
literatures.
Comparative Literature - Comparative Literature - University of ...
Progrmam in comparative literature. Offers career opportuinities.
· · · Comparative Literature About the Program As it is taught at this University, and at many other North American institutions, Comparative Literature implies the study of the interrelationships of literature with other cultural practices and with other disciplines: philosophy, psychology, and politics; all problems in the field of literary criticism and theory; the study of broad currents of thought and style and of major literary schools; the study of literary genres and forms; the study of motifs and themes; the study of the presence of a work of literature, an author, a whole literature, or even a country, region or culture in another national literature, region or culture; the study of authors writing in different languages, but linked by contacts and intertextualities
Our program also includes international studies in popular culture and places increasing emphasis on popular literary genres and film
Work of systematic comparison may be made through such perspectives as literary genre, periods and movements in literary history, dominant themes and motifs, or in the context of the mutual impact of two national cultures or entire civilizations
Medieval literature
Informative article by Radmila Milenkovic, taken from a book on history of Serbian
culture.
, a composition of the founder in the church of the Holy Virgin at the Patriarchate of Pec Written Serbian literature in the Middle Ages was a special literary system, in terms of typology, poetics and literary genres
When they began working on their own Slavic themes, they used only a more narrow aspect of this literature, those genres and that poetics with which the cult of the saints could be celebrated, because the first heroes of Slav literature were those responsible for Slav literacy and for standard language, Cyril and Methodius and their Slav disciples, whom the young Slavonic church considered to be saints
Thus, the ritual genres are: hagiographies, homiletics, and hymnography, or according to their Slavic names: zitije (vita), pohvala (eulogy), sluzbe (church services)
Everything which was created originally in written Serbian literature remained in that system: within the context of ritual genres - extra-ritual subject matter, all new themes were created within the system created for religious use
Through this system of literary genres, it was not possible to express individual human feelings or secular themes, so the genres of oral poetry, lyric and epic, along with oral narration, stories and legends all supplemented the system of written genres
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Mood, Genre, and Erotica
| Mood, Genre, and Erotica I received a very thoughtful letter from a reader who asked to remain anonymous which asked, in part, Having spent some time reading erotica, I am curious about its definition and its role as a literary genre
Do you start writing a story, and then decide to make it an erotic piece, or do you sit down and decide to write a specifically erotic piece? Do the requirements of erotica constrain the possibilities of a story? Is it possible to add erotic elements to genres such as horror, sci-fi, or the other way around? (I have permission to paraphrase the letter)
Right now, I believe that "erotica" is a mood and "smut" is a genre
A mood modifies a piece of fiction and dictates your response to it, while genre defines how the piece of fiction is shaped -- it's a set of conventions and shared assumptions between the reader and the writer
(These are my definitions only; my lit crit books seem to be elsewhere right now.) "Genre" corresponds pretty closely to "publisher's category." Genres include science fiction, fantasy, Harlequin romance, and mystery
PAL: Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Biography, texts and sources on Paul Reuben's PAL website.
He introduced the nonfiction prose as a literary genre
'Accessories that Covertly Explain: Irving's Use of Dutch Genre Painting in `Rip Van Winkle.'' American Literature 54 (1982): 44-62
For an out-of-class essay, read The Sketch-Book and write an essay in which you describe the various literary genres that Irving uses in the book
BookSpot.com: Book reviews, book awards, poetry, literary ...
Features book reviews and news, reading lists, and author and publisher information.
Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
Literary genres, specific historical periods, pedagogical issues, politics and
literature, and literary theory.
An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Feminist Poet-Critics
An Alchemy of Genres: Cross-Genre Writing by American Feminist Poet-Critics
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Scam o Rama: The Lads from Lagos Archive of the first 125 attempts at advance fee fraud received by the site
authors, a sarcastic FAQ on the scam, law enforcement and news links, and fighting
...The 100+ letters below introduce the literary genre of the Lads from Lagos
Charles Perrault - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A brief biography of Perrault with a list of his most popular tales.
Its publication (slyly over the name of his 17-year-old son) made him suddenly widely-known beyond his own circles and marked the beginnings of a new literary genre, the
Magic realism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Article on the history and philosophy of the modern literary school.
Contents [] Common aspects of magical realist novels and films The following elements are found in many magical realist novels and films, but not all are found in all of them and many are found in novels or films that could fall under other genres
[] Relation to other genres and movements As a literary style, magical realism often overlaps or is confused with other genres and movements
Some critics who define the genres more broadly include magic realism as one of the fantasy genres
â Slipstream describes fiction that falls between 'mainstream' literature and the fantasy and science fiction genres (the name itself is wordplay on the term 'mainstream')
The term was first revived and applied to the realm of fiction as a combination of the fantastic and the realistic in the 1960s by a Venezuelan essayist and critic, who applied it to a very specific South American genre, influenced by the blend of realism and fantasy in 's influential novel
Artists associated with magic realism include: [] Music Magic realism has very recently become a little known but rapidly developing genre of music
Music of this genre is regarded as particularly expressive of its creator's emotions through the use of modern instruments as opposed to traditional instruments
CVCO - Overbooked: A Resource for Readers
A resource for readers, specializing in genre and literary fiction information.
Includes booklists, new book information, and other online resources.
Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about literary & genre fiction as well as readable nonfiction
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Genre and the Video Game
An analysis of genre categorization as applied to video games in contrast with
books and film, with definitions and examples.
Genre and the Video Game Chapter 6 of, by Mark J
Wolf The idea of categorization by genre, and the notion that there are certain conventions present in each genre, has been used in the study of literature and film and has proven to be a useful way of looking at both
The idea of genre has not been without difficulties, such as the defining of what exactly constitutes a genre, overlaps between genres, and the fact that genres are always in flux as long as new works are being produced
And genre study differs from one medium to the next., in his book, outlines some of the distinctions between literary genre study and film genre study
He also notes that genre study in the past often focussed on subject matter and neglected the role of the audience
He writes: Genre study may be more productive if we complement the narrow critical focus of traditional genre analysis with a broader sociocultural perspective
Thus, we may consider a genre film not only as some filmmakerâs artistic expression, but further as the cooperation between artists and audience in celebrating their collective values and ideals
In fact, many qualities traditionally viewed as artistic shortcomingsâthe psychologically static hero, for instance, or the predictability of the plotâassume a significantly different value when examined as components of a genreâs ritualistic narrative system
Portuguese Literature
Articles on the history, origins, and development of Portuguese literature, with
biographies of several important authors.
Ever since (16C), but particularly after the periods of and , the production of this literary genre has been steadily increasing, with an ever greater interest being shown by both the reading public and the critics
On the basis of the relationship between the individual and society, which was itself the central feature in the apogee of the novel in the nineteenth century, narrative prose has ceaselessly created a whole range of different aspects that are worthy of being studied: the construction of the plot, the development of the characters, relationships of social dominance, the problematics of existence, subjective conflicts, the passage of time, the activity of writing, the hybrid nature of genres, the rewriting of texts in the form of a parody and the deconstruction of discourse
Agustina Bessa-Luís, A Muralha - 1957 Amongst contemporary authors, there are a number of prominent figures whose vast literary output spreads across different genres, in particular poetry, the novel and the short story
These dedicate themselves to a type of fiction that reworks the traditional novel and short story, bringing them closer to other genres (chronicles, poems in prose and other types of writing extraneous to normal literary conventions), experimenting with new forms for the expression of narrative discourse
The Financial Fiction Genre
A guide to banking and finance in fiction from the classics of Dickens, Thackeray,
and Zola to modern financial thrillers.
The Financial Fiction Genre Banking and Finance in Literature By, brother of the financial thriller writer,
Finance in other Genres William Shakespeare, John Grisham, Brad Meltzer, Emma Lathen, Peter Høeg, Ian Fleming, John le Carré, Tom Clancy, Rafael Sabatini, Ken Follett, Susan Howatch, Lindsey Davis, Deborah Moggach, David Liss, Patrick O'Brian and Sheila O'Flanagan
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
An index with brief explanations and bibliographies.
These critics view the genres and individual plot patterns of literature, including highly sophisticated and realistic works, as recurrences of certain archetypes and essential mythic formulae
CREATIVE NONFICTION - the journal devoted exclusively to the ...
This online site of the print magazine includes a small selection of the articles
found in the print version.
<em>Sophismata</em> (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Article on this common form of medieval philosophical writing, by John Longeway.
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
The so-called sophismata -literature assumed more and more importance during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and it is not an exaggeration to claim that many important developments in philosophy (mainly in logic and natural philosophy) appeared in texts of this kind, where masters could feel free to investigate problems and develop their own views, much more than they could in more academic and strictly codified literary genres
The preceding sophisma can be considered quite characteristic of the genre insofar as we see that the syncategorematic terms ‘or’ and ‘and’ occur in it and are responsible for the ambiguity of the sentence
If we look at the evolution of literary genres, we note that the twelfth- and early-thirteenth century syncategoremata -literature came to be absorbed in the sophisma -literature
'Mathematics and Sophisms in Late Medieval Natural Philosophy.' In Les genres littéraires dans les sources théologiques et philosophiques médiévales
Children's Literature
Contains articles on several topics related to children's literature.
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