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  2. Erotic romance novels - Wikipedia

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    Erotic romance novels have romance as the main focus of the plot line and are characterized by strong, often explicit, sexual content. [3] The books can contain elements of any of the other romance subgenres, such as paranormal elements, chick lit, hen lit, historical fiction, etc. Erotic romance novels are often categorized by one of the categories already defined in the industry.

  3. Dirty realism - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes considered a variety of literary minimalism, dirty realism is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description. Writers working within the genre tend to avoid adverbs, extended metaphor and internal monologue, instead allowing objects and context to dictate meaning. Characters are shown in ordinary ...

  4. The Golden Ass - Wikipedia

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    Lucius takes human form, in a 1345 illustration of the Metamorphoses (ms. Vat. Lat. 2194, Vatican Library).. The date of composition of the Metamorphoses is uncertain. It has variously been considered by scholars as a youthful work preceding Apuleius' Apology of 158–159, or as the climax of his literary career, and perhaps as late as the 170s or 180s. [5]

  5. Romance (prose fiction) - Wikipedia

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    The following are the two main definitions relating to literature found in the Oxford English Dictionary: A fictitious narrative, usually in prose, in which the settings or the events depicted are remote from everyday life, or in which sensational or exciting events or adventures form the central theme; a book, etc., containing such a narrative.

  6. Erotica - Wikipedia

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    Erotica is art, literature or photography that deals substantively with subject matter that is erotic, sexually stimulating or sexually arousing. Some critics regard pornography as a type of erotica, but many consider it to be different. Erotic art may use any artistic form to depict erotic content, including painting, sculpture, drama, film or ...

  7. Contemporary romance - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary romance is a subgenre of contemporary and romance novels.This era of romance novels that were published after 1945 [1] and the Second World War. [2] Contemporary romance is generally set contemporaneously with the time of its writing. [3]

  8. Transgressive fiction - Wikipedia

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    The book was banned in the US due to what the government claimed was obscenity, specifically parts of Molly Bloom's "soliloquy" at the end of the book. [17] Random House Inc. challenged the claim of obscenity in federal court and was granted permission to print the book in the US. Judge Woolsey's explanation for his removal of the ban is often ...

  9. Libertine novel - Wikipedia

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    The libertine novel was an 18th-century literary genre of which the roots lay in the European but mainly French libertine tradition. The genre effectively ended with the French Revolution . Themes of libertine novels were anti-clericalism , anti-establishment and eroticism .