New adult fiction: History and Key Facts
New adult (NA) fiction is a developing genre of fiction with protagonists in the 18–29 age bracket.
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Nordic noir: History and Key Facts
Nordic noir, also known as Scandinavian noir, is a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police point of view and set in Scandinavia or the Nordic countries.
Novel of manners: History and Key Facts
The novel of manners is a work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveying with detailed observation the complex of customs, values, and mores of a stratified society.
Parallel novel: History and Key Facts
A parallel novel is an in-universe (but often non-canonical) pastiche (or sometimes sequel) piece of literature written within, derived from, or taking place during the framework of another work
Paranormal romance: History and Key Facts
Paranormal romance is a subgenre of both romantic fiction and speculative fiction.
Pasquinade: History and Key Facts
A pasquinade or pasquil is a form of satire, usually an anonymous brief lampoon in verse or prose, and can also be seen as a form of literary caricature.
Pastoral science fiction: History and Key Facts
Pastoral science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction which uses bucolic, rural settings, like other forms of pastoral literature.
Pastoralia (genre): History and Key Facts
Pastoralia is a genre of written practical and theoretical aids aimed at pastors, parish priests and curates that proliferated in Western Europe in the later Middle Ages.
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Picaresque novel: History and Key Facts
The picaresque novel is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish but appealing hero, usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.
Political fiction: History and Key Facts
Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories.
Plantation tradition: History and Key Facts
Plantation tradition is a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times.
Portal fantasy: History and Key Facts
Portal fantasy, also called portal-quest fantasy, gateway fantasy or crossworld fantasy, is a subgenre of speculative fiction, particularly fantasy fiction and science fiction, that hinges upon t
Popular novel in France: History and Key Facts
The popular novel—or popular literature, also known as paraliterature—refers to literary productions that reach a wide readership, which developed during the 19th century primarily due to the dec
Portrait (literature): History and Key Facts
The portrait, as a literary genre, is a written description or analysis of a person or thing.
Prehistoric fiction: History and Key Facts
Prehistoric fiction is both a historical fiction and a science fiction subgenre in which the story is set during the long timespan of human, and even animal, prehistory; the Paleolithic, Mesolith
Procedural drama: History and Key Facts
A procedural drama or procedural is a cross-genre type of literature, film, or television program that places emphasis on technical detail.
Proverb: History and Key Facts
A proverb (from Latin: proverbium) or an adage is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience.
Qasida: History and Key Facts
The qaṣīda (also spelled qaṣīdah; plural qaṣā’id) is an ancient Arabic word and form of poetry, often translated as ode.
Quantum fiction: History and Key Facts
Quantum fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that reflects modern experience of the material world and reality as influenced by quantum theory and new principles in quantum physics.
Regency romance: History and Key Facts
Regency romances are a subgenre of romance novels set during the period of the British Regency (1811–1820) or the early 19th century.
Récit: History and Key Facts
A récit is a subgenre of the French novel, in which the narrative calls attention to itself.
Robinsonade: History and Key Facts
Robinsonade ( ROB-in-sən-AYD) is a literary genre of fiction wherein a person or a group of persons is suddenly separated from civilization, usually by being shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded
Roman à clef: History and Key Facts
A roman à clef ( roh-MON ə KLAY; French: [ʁɔmɑ̃n‿a kle]; lit.
Romance (prose fiction): History and Key Facts
Romance is "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", a narrative method that was contrasted to the new, main tradition of the
Romantic fantasy: History and Key Facts
Romantic fantasy, or "romantasy", is a subgenre of the broader genres of fantasy fiction and romance fiction that combines fantasy and romance, bringing to fantasy many of the elements and conven
Romanetto: History and Key Facts
Romanetto (romanetto in Czech) is a literary genre popularized by the Czech writer Jakub Arbes.
Romanzo d'appendice: History and Key Facts
Romanzo d'appendìce (Italian for feuilleton) was a genre in literature.
Satire: History and Key Facts
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ri
Ruritanian romance: History and Key Facts
Ruritanian romance is a genre of literature, film and theatre comprising novels, stories, plays and films set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe, such as the "Ruritania"
School story: History and Key Facts
The school story is a fiction genre centring on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century.
Sensation novel: History and Key Facts
The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to the 1890s, centring on taboo material that wa
Sentimental novel: History and Key Facts
The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th- and 19th-century literary genre that presents and celebrates the concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility.
Sentimentalism (literature): History and Key Facts
As a literary mode, sentimentalism, the practice of being sentimental, and thus tending towards making emotions and feelings the basis of a person's actions and reactions, as opposed to reason, h
Short-story cycle: History and Key Facts
A short-story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of
Shahr Ashob: History and Key Facts
The Shahr Ashob (Persian: شهر آشوب; Shahr-i Ashob (lit.
Siyar: History and Key Facts
Siyar is the plural of the noun sira, and literally means a “path”, or “way of walking”.
Sīra shaʿbiyya: History and Key Facts
Sīra shaʿbiyya is a genre in Islamic literature consisting of long heroic narrative.
Slave narrative: History and Key Facts
The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly black Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other exam
Social novel: History and Key Facts
The social novel, also known as the social problem (or social protest) novel, is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized t
Spiritual literature: History and Key Facts
Spiritual literature is a genre of literature that seeks to explore themes of the connection between people and the divine.