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2. Genre studies - Wikipedia

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   Genre studies is an academic subject which studies genre theory as a branch of general critical theory in several different fields, including art, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition studies. Literary genre studies is a structuralist approach to the study of genre and genre theory in literary theory, film theory, and other ...

3. Object Lessons (book series) - Wikipedia

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   Object Lessons is "an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things". Each of the essays (2,000 words) and the books (25,000 words) investigate a single object through a variety of approaches that often reveal something unexpected about that object.

4. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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   Varsity novel; Adventure fiction; Echtra – pre-Christian Old Irish literature about a hero's adventures in the Otherworld or with otherworldly beings. [15] Lost world [16] Nautical fiction; Picaresque novel – depicts the adventures of a roguish, but "appealing hero", of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.

5. Novel: A Forum on Fiction - Wikipedia

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   Novel: A Forum on Fiction is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Duke University Press. The editor-in-chief is Nancy Armstrong (Duke University). It is the official journal of the Society for Novel Studies. The journal was established in 1967 and publishes essays "concerned with the novel's role in engaging and shaping the ...

6. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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   In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2]

7. Genre fiction - Wikipedia

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   Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction [1] or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.

8. Bildungsroman - Wikipedia

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   In literary criticism, a bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn], plural bildungsromane, German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːnə]) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age), [1] in which character change is important.

9. The Gadfly - Wikipedia

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   The book, set during the Italian Risorgimento, is primarily concerned with the culture of revolution and revolutionaries.Arthur, the eponymous Gadfly, embodies the tragic Romantic hero, who comes of age and returns from abandonment to discover his true state in the world and fight against the injustices of the current one.