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Fiction as a Genre

Abstract This chapter develops and defends the Genre Theory of Fiction, according to which fiction and nonfiction are categories whose membership is determined by a set of nonessential criteria, but which nonetheless play a role in the appreciation of works.
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Disability in Genre Fiction

2017
A visually impaired hero is unable to recognize the woman he meets as his lost love. Through her intervention, his sight is restored, and the couple live happily ever after. A young girl with autism is threatened by a supernatural monster, but is protected by a nondisabled boy.
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A Typology of Genres of Fiction

1999
AbstractThis chapter summarizes some of the characteristic dimensions that produce emotions in visual fiction, and uses these dimensions to formulate a typology of prototypical emotion-producing genres. The eight prototypical genre-patterns in visual fiction, based on their emotional effect on the viewer, are: lyricism, canonical narratives ...
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Genre and speculative fiction

2012
This chapter is all about writing genre fiction. In that statement lies our first problem: genres are often defined by what is common, reused or similar; creative writing is often defined as the pursuit of originality, especially when being conceived, theorised and taught in tertiary institutions.
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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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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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Science Fiction versus Fantasy: A Semantic Categorization and its Contribution to Distinguishing Two Literary Genres

Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel, 2019
Vannina Goossens   +2 more
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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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Towards an Automated Approach to Extract and Compare Fictional Networks: An Initial Evaluation

2014 25th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2014
M. Trovati, James Brady
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