Talk:Literary genre

Literary Genres

What is your favorite kind of Literary Genre? After all, with so many kinds, there has to be at least one that suits your fancy. Alexa Bellstrom In reference to the "citation needed," after the inclusion of “creative non-fiction” in the list of the most general types of genre. I agree with this challenge, as “creative-non- fiction seems to be much more specific than the other six examples. However, “creative non-fiction” could refer to any type of biography, or journalism, memoirs, travel journals, etc. But then, why does “non-fiction” require “creative” to modify it? Whether or not something is creative is of a dubious nature. Isn’t all writing essentially creative, and act by which person puts down something that did not exist previously? Rauto (talk) 23:13, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Magical Realism

I noticed that for the Literary Genre page, there is no link for Magical Realism. I'll have to fix that...Every single genre present herein is some kind of a perfect representation of yourself...

Non-poetic Epic?

In the context of literary genres, does "epic" always imply poetry? I'm working on links to the Epic disambiguation page and this is coming up qutie often. John (Jwy) 00:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Comment on 55 Fiction

Please go through 55 Fiction and suggest changes/improvements, if any. Also, please suggest how it can be suitably linked with with other articles (if it deserves to be). -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 11:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

That is very good

It is a scholarly article. The whole article does not need cleanup and references:

• Todorov, M.MBakhin, etc... --Escalda 03:20, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Category genres

Should there be mention of the "hack" division of romance and sci fi, generally referred to as "category romance" or "category sci-fi" ? This refers to things like the Silhouette line of romances, or the D&D line of science fiction. Generally of lower quality, though not infrequently a good author may begin there and then move on to the "single-title" romance (i.e. where the author's name is more important than the series name). The publishing houses definitely recognize this class of books... --Bookgrrl ^holler/lookee here 00:07, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what to call the 'branded' Romance lines. In F&SF, the proper term is "media tie-in" novels. The ongoing flood of Star Trek books is an obvious example.

I haven't made any changes to the Wikipedia article. In case it proves helpful, my writers group has compiled a long list of literary fiction genres and subgenres.

http://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/genres.html

71.131.26.109 06:20, 6 October 2007 (UTC) -Paul C

Literary genre is clearly distinct from Genre Fiction

Literary genre is clearly distinct from Genre Fiction. Please do not confuse the two. Also please do not use the article as a promotion tool for SF and Fantasy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.63.150.78 (talk) 12:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

'Unsigned,' perhaps you could be more specific in your remarks? I know that most writers and publishers will distinguish between 'genre' and 'literary' fiction. In the USA it's almost a class-warfare thing!

As for 'promoting' F&SF literature, what gave you that idea? Guess I missed the ads.

In fact, in compiling a thorough list of subgenres, we learned that science fiction has more than 80 -- twice that of any other publishing genre. Fantasy and Romance come in second, while all others have just a few. Thus, in an article such as this one, SF is going to dominate the text.

http://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/genres.html

(Anyone is welcome to expand other sections of this Wikipedia article, and speaking of shameless promotions, to suggest additions to my web-based list.)

Cuebon (talk) 18:25, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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New template

Template:Infobox literary genre

-- TimNelson (talk) 00:39, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Text moved from the article (17 March 2012)

I removed the following part (added by 78.144.228.160, Revision as of 18:01, 14 March 2012) from the article:

'''Genres are also what the story is about. So i could have a book about a detective in a rainforest discovering a lost city and that would be adventure. Also i could write a story about a dark abyss in a graveyard, that would be gothic/horror and so on... HOPE I HAVE BEEN HELPFUL! :)'''

Please, use the talk page of an article for your suggestions, or follow WP:MOS for writing onto the main/article namespace. Thank You! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Criticism of the concept

The article states that "The concept of 'genre' has been criticized by Jacques Derrida". Shouldn't there be some explanation of what this criticism is? At least a brief summary of why Derrida has criticised it. There are two citations provided, but I don't have access to either of them. As it stands currently I don't see how this sentence is a worthwhile part of the article.

Wikipedia is not a reliable source

Billyh45, I would like to introduce you to a new concept: Wikipedia articles are not reliable sources. See WP:RS: "although Wikipedia articles are tertiary sources, Wikipedia employs no systematic mechanism for fact checking or accuracy. Thus Wikipedia articles (or Wikipedia mirrors) are not reliable sources for any purpose." Hence, it is not relevant that the Wikipedia article Literature says, "Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction"). Please do not invent made-up excuses for restoring uncited and inaccurate content, as you did here. You are quite wrong if you believe the content of a Wikipedia article settles any dispute at another article. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 02:23, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

If WP cannot be a reliable source, then how can Template:Infobox book be a reliable source for Talk:Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds#Genre? Anyway I have now used the University of Vermont as a reliable source. Nonfiction can be a genre. Billyh45 (talk) 06:50, 14 January 2016 (UTC)