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More subgenres[edit]

There are lots more subgenres listed at Literary genre. We should expand this article to cover them.

-- TimNelson (talk) 11:05, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sword-and-sandal[edit]

Quoting the lead paragraph,
It is used as an umbrella term for the sword and sorcery genre and sometimes, if fantasy is involved, the sword-and-sandal genre too.

But sword-and-sandal here at en.wikipedia is a genre that "dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965", with a mid-1980s revival. --P64 (talk) 19:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Sword-and-sandal is currently claimed only by the two wikiprojects Film (Italian cinema task force) and Classical Greece and Rome. --P64 (talk) 20:46, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The random list of "examples"[edit]

Assaph Mehr's Murder In Absentia: Rome-based fantasy world
C. J. Cherryh's The Russian Stories: Medieval Kievan Rus' and The Paladin: China of the Tang Dynasty
C.C. Finlay's Traitor to the Crown: American Revolution
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain vampire novels: various eras
David Gemmel's Lion of Macedon: Ancient Greece
Delia Sherman's The Porcelain Dove: Revolutionary France
Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete: Ancient Greece, and Soldier of Sidon: Ancient Egypt
Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana: Renaissance Italy, A Song for Arbonne: Medieval Occitania, The Lions of Al-Rassan: Moorish Spain, The Sarantine Mosaic: Byzantine Greece, and The Last Light of the Sun: Viking England
Harry Turtledove's Thessalonica: (Byzantine Greece) and War Between the Provinces: (American Civil War)
Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke: about a warrior prince in 14th-century Japan, who travels to the West in order to remove a demon curse from him by a Forest Spirit.
Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, specifically Phantom Blood: Victorian England, Battle Tendency: World War II, and Steel Ball Run: Wild West America.
Hiroshi Aramata's Teito Monogatari (Tale of the Imperial Capital Saga): different novels in different time periods of Japan spanning from Bakumatsu to Showa Era
James Gawley is a classical scholar who writes classical fantasy based on the civil wars of the late Roman Republic.
Juliet Marillier's The Sevenwaters Trilogy: 9th-century Ireland
Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels: Medieval British Isles (specifically, Wales)
Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori: feudal Japan
Lynne Ellison's The Green Bronze Mirror: a teenage girl goes back in time to the Roman Empire and meets a Roman witch and a magic-wielding druid.
Naomi Novik's Temeraire series: England during the Napoleonic Wars
Paula Volsky's Illusion: French Revolution
Peter Morwood's Prince Ivan trilogy: Russia just before and after the coming of the Golden Horde
Philip Tolhurst's George and the Dragon mixes Arthurian legend, dragons and World War II.
Poul Anderson has written many novels mixing northern mythology with the historic events of the Viking age: The Broken Sword, Hrolf Kraki's Saga, War of the Gods, and Mother of Kings. More historical with only slight fantasy elements is The Last Viking series.
Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age includes fantasy versions of many historical countries and peoples.
Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha is mostly set in Sengoku Era Japan.
S. J. A. Turney's Interregnum and Ironroot: Late Imperial Rome
Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories: Napoleonic England
Tim Powers's The Drawing of the Dark: Renaissance Europe, On Stranger Tides: early 19th century Caribbean, and The Stress of Her Regard: early 19th century Italy

Also the latter list of works featuring Japan might me think a section about Japan might be in order, however it is called, as it's very common in Japanese pop culture (ninja/samurai vs demons and such). SNAAAAKE!! (talk) 17:07, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Eurocentric[edit]

The top definition is Eurocentric and could use improvement with verified sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KimYunmi (talk • contribs) 18:08, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]