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Dystopian fiction offers the opposite: the portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. [ 1 ] [ full citation needed ] Some novels combine both genres, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take depending on its choices, ending up with one of two possible futures.
In 2017, fantasy author Alexandra Rowland proposed the term hopepunk as the opposite of grimdark, which is a subgenre that is particularly dystopian, amoral, or violent. [1] [2] Their initial Tumblr post, "The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk.
Dante Meditating on the Divine Comedy.Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1843. Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, [1] high literature, [2] artistic literature, [2] and sometimes just literature, [2] are labels that, in the book trade, refer to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction) or, otherwise, refer to novels that are ...
“This is a bold and fascinating mystery novel of ideas", said Ian McEwan of the book in advance of its publication. "John David Morley enfolds science and human loss with great fictional cunning." "John David Morley enfolds science and human loss with great fictional cunning."
This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts.. Genre is the term for any category of creative work, which includes literature and other forms of art or entertainment (e.g. music)—whether written or spoken, audio or visual—based on some set of stylistic criteria.
The ideal Postmodernist novel will somehow rise above the quarrel between realism and irrealism, formalism and "contentism", pure and committed literature, coterie fiction and junk fiction... [67] Many of the well-known postmodern novels deal with World War II, one of the most famous of which being Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Heller claimed his ...
You could always create your own book covers out of craft paper, just like you did your sixth-grade textbooks. It looks just as sleek, only it’s way more functional for day-to-day use.
Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, [1] instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms. [2]