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Biographical fiction is a type of historical fiction that takes a historical individual and recreates elements of his or her life, while telling a fictional narrative, usually in the genres of film or the novel. The relationship between the biographical and the fictional may vary within different pieces of biographical fiction.
The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictional genre, the novel.
Biography is the earliest literary genre in history. According to Egyptologist Miriam Lichtheim, writing took its first steps toward literature in the context of the private tomb funerary inscriptions. These were commemorative biographical texts recounting the careers of deceased high royal officials. [2]
The Dictionary of Literary Biography is a specialist biographical dictionary dedicated to literature. Published by Gale, the 375-volume set [1] covers a wide variety of literary topics, periods, and genres, with a focus on American and British literature. [2]
This category is for articles relating to the literary genre of biography. For articles about humans in general, see Category:Humans. For articles about biographical books, see Category:Biographical books. For museums associated with people, see Category:Biographical museums. For articles on fictional people, see Category:Fictional characters.
Poem - a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meaning; Quest narrative – a story in which the characters must achieve a goal. This includes some illness narratives.
Literary fiction is a term that distinguishes certain fictional works that possess commonly held qualities to readers outside genre fiction. [ citation needed ] Literary fiction is any fiction that attempts to engage with one or more truths or questions, hence relevant to a broad scope of humanity as a form of expression.
A biographical film or biopic (/ ˈ b aɪ oʊ ˌ p ɪ k /) [1] is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. [ 2 ]