Systems novel: History and Key Facts
Systems novel is a literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of Excess: Mastery in
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Tarikh: History and Key Facts
Tarikh (Arabic: تاريخ, romanized: tārīkh) is an Arabic word meaning "date, chronology, era", whence by extension "annals, history, historiography".
Taiwan nativist literature: History and Key Facts
Taiwan nativist literature (Chinese: 鄉土文學; pinyin: Xiangtu Wenxue; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hiong-thó͘ Bûn-ha̍k).
Teaching stories: History and Key Facts
A teaching story is a narrative that has been deliberately created as a vehicle for the transmission of wisdom.
Thriller (genre): History and Key Facts
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.
Theatre-fiction: History and Key Facts
Theatre-fiction refers to novels and stories that focus on theatre – its people, practices and industries.
Tourism fiction: History and Key Facts
Tourism fiction is a genre of fiction that is written to generate tourism to specific areas and places.
Time-travel romance: History and Key Facts
Time-travel romance is a subgenre of romantic fiction associated with paranormal romance.
Ukiyo-zōshi: History and Key Facts
Ukiyo-zōshi (浮世草子; "books of the floating world") is the first major genre of popular Japanese fiction, written between the 1680s and 1770s in Kyoto and Osaka.
Varsity novel: History and Key Facts
A varsity novel is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university and focuses on students rather than faculty.
Visionary fiction: History and Key Facts
Visionary fiction is a fiction genre with New Age or mind, body, spirit themes and perspectives, including consciousness expansion, spirituality, mysticism, and parapsychology.
Western (genre): History and Key Facts
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier, commonly referred to as the “Old West” or “Wild West”.
Western romance literature: History and Key Facts
Western romance literature denotes a genre subset of romance literature, sometimes referred to as cowboy romance.
Whore dialogues: History and Key Facts
Whore dialogues are a literary genre of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and a type of erotic fiction.
Yellow-back: History and Key Facts
A yellow-back or yellowback is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century.
Young adult romance literature: History and Key Facts
Young adult romance literature is a genre of books written for teenagers.
Romance novel: History and Key Facts
A romance, or romantic novel, is a genre of fiction in which the main narrative focuses on the development of a romantic relationship between two or more characters within a story, often concludi