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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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Non-fiction as a literary genre

Publishing Research Quarterly, 2000
L'auteur s'interroge sur la non-fiction en tant que genre nouveau, la polemique apparue autour de ce terme et son implication dans les differentes ...
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Fact, Fiction and the Genre of Acts

New Testament Studies, 1998
This paper explores the boundaries between fact and fiction in ancient literature. The historians effectively created the concept of ‘fiction’ in Greek literature by defining what could be incontrovertibly established as ‘fact’ by accepted rationalistic criteria.
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Fiction Genre: From the Academy to the Library

Library Trends
Abstract: It has been suggested that approaches to the provision of fiction, and the treatment of fiction, in the library world generally follow the attitudes adopted by the academy. To explore whether the treatment of fiction genre in librarianship follows the attitudes of the academy, this reflective paper examines the ways in which fiction genre ...
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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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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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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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Introduction: Fictions of Genre

2023
Claire Rachel Jackson, Janja Soldo
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Genre Features Of Philosophical Fiction

American Journal of Philological Sciences
The article deals with the notion of philosophical prose. Thus, the main purpose of the investigation is to show the key genre features of the works of philosophical fiction. It discusses some literary works as “Crime and punishment” by F. Dostoyevsky, “The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D Salinger, “Nausea” by J. P Sartre, “Atlas Shrugged” by A.
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On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre

College English, 1972
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