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154 relations: Adolf Hitler in popular culture, Aesop, Aesthetic interpretation, Age of Enlightenment, Agnosticism, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alternate history, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek comedy, Animation, Anime, Archetype, Art, Autofiction, Battle of Prestonpans, Blog, Blog fiction, Buzz Aldrin, Ceremony, Character (arts), Charles Edward Stuart, Charlie Rose (talk show), Chivalry, Collaborative fiction, Comic book, Comics, Concert dance, Conflict (narrative), Copyright, Creative nonfiction, Creative work, Crime fiction, Digital library, Docudrama, Don Quixote, Drama, Drama (film and television), Dramatic portrayals of Reinhard Heydrich, Empiricism, Epic poetry, Experimental literature, Fable, Fact, Fairy tale, Fan fiction, Fantasy, Fascism, Fiction, Fictional universe, Film, ... Expand index (104 more) »
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Adolf Hitler in popular culture
Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, has been represented in popular culture ever since he became a well-known politician in Germany.
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Aesop
Aesop (or;,; formerly rendered as Æsop) is an almost certainly legendary Greek fabulist and storyteller, said to have lived c. 620–564 BCE, and credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
Aesthetic interpretation
In the philosophy of art, an interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of a work of art.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
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Alternate history
Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Greek comedy
Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play).
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Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
Archetype
The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.
Art
Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
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Autofiction
Autofiction is, in literary criticism, a form of fictionalized autobiography.
Battle of Prestonpans
The Battle of Prestonpans, also known as the Battle of Gladsmuir, was fought on 21 September 1745, near Prestonpans, in East Lothian, the first significant engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
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Blog fiction
Blog fiction is an online literary genre that tells a fictional story in the style of a weblog or blog.
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot.
Ceremony
A ceremony is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.
Character (arts)
In fiction, a character or personage, is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game).
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Charles Edward Stuart
Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (31 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1766 as Charles III.
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Charlie Rose (talk show)
Charlie Rose (also known as The Charlie Rose Show) is an American television interview and talk show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host.
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Chivalry
Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220.
Collaborative fiction
Collaborative fiction is a form of writing by a group of authors who share creative control of a story.
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Comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.
Comics
a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information.
Concert dance
Concert dance (also known as performance dance or theatre dance in the United Kingdom) is dance performed for an audience.
Conflict (narrative)
Traditionally, conflict is a major element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the goal will be achieved.
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Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
Creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
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Creative work
A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art), dance, writing (literature), filmmaking, and composition.
Crime fiction
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. Fiction and crime fiction are genres.
Digital library
A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the internet.
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Docudrama
Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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Dramatic portrayals of Reinhard Heydrich
Dramatic portrayals of Reinhard Heydrich number among the more numerous of any Second World War figure, comparable to Adolf Hitler as well as war films depicting Erwin Rommel.
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Empiricism
In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.
Epic poetry
An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.
Experimental literature
Experimental literature is a genre of literature that is generally "difficult to define with any sort of precision." It experiments with the conventions of literature, including boundaries of genres and styles; for example, it can be written in the form of prose narratives or poetry, but the text may be set on the page in differing configurations than that of normal prose paragraphs or in the classical stanza form of verse.
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Fable
Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.
Fact
A fact is a true datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance.
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Fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.
Fan fiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction, also known as fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF, is fiction written in an amateur capacity by fans as a form of fan labor, unauthorized by, but based on, an existing work of fiction.
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.
Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
Fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fiction and Fiction are genres.
Fictional universe
A fictional universe (also called an imagined universe or a constructed universe) is the internally consistent fictional setting used in a narrative work or work of art, most commonly associated with works of fantasy and science fiction.
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Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
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Film criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes (De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.
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Genre fiction
Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction 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. Fiction and genre fiction are genres.
Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
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Heroic romances
Heroic romances refers to a distinguished class of imaginative literature that flourished in the 17th century, principally in France.
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Hesiod
Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
High culture
In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy, which a society considers representative of their culture.
Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.
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History
History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
Human condition
The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death.
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Imagination
Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself.
Interactive fiction
Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.
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James Wood (critic)
James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist.
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John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski,; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
Legend
A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.
Life imitating art
Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis.
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List of writing genres
Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria.
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Literary criticism
A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
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Literary forgery
Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents untrue or imaginary information or content.
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Literary realism
Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.
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Literary theory
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.
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Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.
Media (communication)
In communication, media are the outlets or tools used to store and deliver content; semantic information or subject matter of which the media contains.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
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Milesian tale
The Milesian tale (Μιλησιακά, Milesiaka; Latin:fabula milesiaca, or Milesiae fabula) is a genre of fictional story prominent in ancient Greek and Roman literature.
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
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Narration
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.
Narrative
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether non-fictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these.
Narrative film
Narrative film, fictional film or fiction film is a motion picture that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative.
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Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon.
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Fiction and non-fiction are genres.
Non-fiction novel
The non-fiction novel is a literary genre that, broadly speaking, depicts non-fictional elements, such as real historical figures and actual events, woven together with fictitious conversations and uses the storytelling techniques of fiction.
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Novel
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.
Novella
A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories.
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Oral storytelling
Oral storytelling is an ancient and intimate tradition between the storyteller and their audience.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
Outline of fiction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to fiction: Fiction – narrative which is made up by the author.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Plot (narrative)
In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.
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Political criticism
Political criticism, also referred to as political commentary or political discussion, is a type of criticism that is specific of or relevant to politics, including policies, politicians, political parties, and types of government.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
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Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Prose
Prose is the form of written language (including written speech or dialogue) that follows the natural flow of speech, a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or typical writing conventions and formatting.
Public domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
Puppetry
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.
Radio drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.
Realism (arts)
Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Romance (love)
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.
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Romance novel
A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.
Royalty payment
A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Fiction and science fiction are genres.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, commonly known as SFWA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.
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Setting (narrative)
A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
Sign Systems Studies
Sign Systems Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal on semiotics edited at the Department of Semiotics of the University of Tartu and published by the University of Tartu Press.
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Social commentary
Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on social, cultural, political, or economic issues in a society.
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Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms.
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Stop motion
Stop motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Supernatural
Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.
Suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoying its narrative.
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Technology in science fiction
Technology in science fiction is a crucial aspect of the genre.
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Television comedy
Television comedy was/is a category of broadcasting that has been present since the early days of entertainment media.
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Television show
A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.
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Terrence Rafferty
Terrence Rafferty is a film critic who wrote regularly for The New Yorker during the 1990s.
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War.
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Theatre criticism
Theatre criticism is a genre of arts criticism, and the act of writing or speaking about the performing arts such as a play or opera.
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Theme (narrative)
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.
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Tim O'Brien (author)
Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War.
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Tone (literature)
In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.
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Verisimilitude (fiction)
Verisimilitude is the "lifelikeness" or believability of a work of fiction.
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Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Villain
A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction.
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian.
Waverley (novel)
Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since is a historical novel by Walter Scott (1771–1832).
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Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser.
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World War II in popular culture
There is a wide range of ways in which people have represented World War II in popular culture.
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Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe.
Writing style
In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation.
See also
Genres
- Action (genre)
- Biography
- Biography (genre)
- Christian media
- Comedy
- Crime fiction
- Day in the life
- Domestic realism
- Epics
- Erotica
- Fairy tale parody
- Fiction
- Film genre
- Genre
- Genre fiction
- Genre studies
- Genre-busting
- Heroic lay
- Humour
- Hybrid genre
- Indie Classical
- List of genres
- Martial arts fiction
- Military fiction
- Nature writing
- Non-fiction
- Police procedural
- Pop culture fiction
- Popular history
- Romance
- Rotrouenge
- Satire
- Science fiction
- Stand and Deliver (game)
- Subgenres
- Western (genre)
- Westworld (game)
- Wuxia
References
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