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Genre Fiction since 1950

2018
This chapter discusses the history of genre fiction in New Zealand since 1950. Crime writers such as Vanda Symon and Paul Cleave exploit the phenomenon of ‘glocalization’ by locating an international genre in distinctively local settings. Others, like Nalini Singh and Phillip Mann, embrace the alternative worlds of science fiction and fantasy without ...
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American Fiction and the Genre Critics

NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, 1969
The question of what is unique about nineteenth-century American fiction is asked and answered with such compulsive regularity in academic circles that by all logic its possibilities should be exhausted. Yet the opposite is true. Since the end of World War II even the most far reaching studies have done as much to obscure as to clarify the problem ...
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Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction

2016
This chapter explores the place of genre in modern Chinese fiction through a reading of Xiang Kairan’s martial arts novelRighteous Heroes of Modern Times, considered one of the foundational works of modern martial arts fiction. The novel’s narrative centers on the question of the transmission of China’s martial arts.
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Genre recognition of history and fiction

Poetics, 1994
Abstract This paper describes an experiment testing the ability of readers to recognize the genre of a work given very small samples (5 to 15 words) of randomly selected passages of history or fiction. The high degree of accuracy - 79.2% correct responses at 5 words, for example - suggests that genre is deeply embedded in the work and recognizable at
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Science Fiction and Postcolonialism: The Power of Cross-Genre Fiction

2022
An experimental piece blending theory, fiction, and academic writing in order to both create and criticize a work in the tradition of science fiction while seeking to undermine the hegemonic ideals that sometimes lie at the heart of works in that tradition.
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Genre theory and the practice of genre fiction : a tightrope in the dark

2023
I set out to understand genre by reading from the theory, but ultimately this project came to demonstrate the synergies between practice and theory, and the necessity for a writer to be conscious of those synergies. My interest in genre arose from the simple fact that I am a writer of genre-driven fiction, and faced by a marketplace destabilized by new
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American Crime Fiction: Studies in the Genre

South Central Review, 1991
This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on American crime fiction. There are essays on Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M.Cain, Mickey Spillane, George V.Higgins and Jerome Charyn, covering the period from 1840 to 1980.
Erich H. Ritter, Brian Docherty
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Feminism and Genre Fiction: the Preliminaries

2001
The 1980s saw the rise of feminist popular genre fiction, the appropriation of a variety of formulaic narratives by feminist writers. This book is in part a textual study of the tensions that arise from such appropriations, both to the genre and to the feminism.
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Science fiction as a genre of fiction

ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
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Computational methods for the analysis of fiction genres

This chapter presents a multimethod, multidisciplinary analysis of genre in a large dataset of 9,800 English novels, in order to deepen our understanding of aspects of fiction genres and subgenres. We specifically focus on applying well-established, interpretable methods, in order to benefit scholars from a variety of disciplines.
van Cranenburgh, Andreas, Allen, Laura, Sharoff, Serge, van Dalen-Oskam, K.H.   +3 more
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