there is some definite overlap. There's something called upmarket fiction, which is essentially a melding of the two genres. Upmarket fiction takes certain aspects of popular fiction and incorporates them while still focusing on the “quality” of the writing—meaning the literary merit of the pro...
Take a look at your bookshelf, and you'll probably have no problem determining your favorite genre. The rows of multiple Harry Potter books (all different editions, of course) and the collection of A Song Of Ice and Fire probably means you're a big…
In this paper, we address the problem of developing approaches which are capable of working with extremely large and complex literary documents to perform Genre Identification. The task is to assign the literary classification to a full-length book belonging to a corpus of literature, where the ...
Literary genres are an integral aspect of a language arts curriculum. This lesson outlines several ideas for activities and games to engage your...
Bourdieu defines the influence of symbolic capital, illuminating how things, such as classics, receive value from a collective belief that they have meaning at all. These concepts will then be applied to Penguin Book Ltd's inclusion of Autobiography by Steven Patrick Morrissey in the original ...
Each word part of a sentence, part of a paragraph, part of a final essay to be submitted, part of a book of said essays to be offered up as sacrifice to the capricious gods of publishing. By getting “serious” about writing, I robbed the act of fun. I used to spend hours ...
However, his visit isannouncedin the beginning of the book, but as a letter noting that it will be some time before he arrives. The book happens, and then Axtara’s older sibling appears for the final chapter, making good on his promise and helping to wrap everything up from the story...
“Like I’m losing my mind, but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way.” That just about sums up how I felt reading this book.The Night Circusis within my top five favorite books ever, and I went into this hoping for something similar. I wanted to taste the words and sink int...
The opening sentence of his Poeticsannounces the central aim of classical genrecriticism: 'I propose to treat of Poetry in itselfand of its various kinds, noting the essentialquality of each.' In the third book of Plato'sRepublic Socrates had proposed a rudimentarytaxonomy of three literary form...
stop and ask questions. Usually, it does so from a slightly distanced perspective. Even if it utilizesa deep POVthat puts readers right there in the characters’ heads, what is evoked is the sense of being one step back from the action, observing, commenting, noticing the deeper meaning. ...