Genre fiction

Commercial and Literary fiction are both appealing genres to many people. They each follow unique writing styles that authors use to describe their ideas. Commercial writing can be compared to eating at a fast food restaurant, which is easily accessible, appeals to large population, and is served in a leisurely environment. On the other hand, literary writing is like attending a formal dinner, which requires a certain status, dress code, and is high class. The two short stories that are used to…

Margo Lanagan’s short story Singing my Sister down (2004) from Black Juice is a story set in fictional world which tells the tale of a young boy watching his sister Ikky, sink slowly into a tar-pit, publicly, as a form of punishment due to her potentially killing her husband, commanded by Chief Barnarndra. It becomes an intimate moment as her family tries to make her punishment of death peaceful and beautiful, not only for Ikky, but for themselves. The main themes and concepts found within the…

How can historical fiction, modernism, philosophical literature, and tragedy be interwoven into a book that is no thicker then a paintbrush used to create a masterpiece? Well there are two explanations. First, the unofficial yet real genre of A Room of One 's Own to me is an "essay", but that 's not really a fictional genre as much as it an formal attempt to write on a particular subject. Yet, Woolf is using her modernistic talents to convice us, the reader, that her thesis is realist; but also…

Over 50 years ago Thomas Keneally wrote his first novel, ‘The Place at Whitton’. Since that time he has written 35 novels, 18 non fiction books, 5 screenplays and 5 plays. He has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin award five times and won it twice. His books have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize four times and he has won it once. He has won the Prime Ministers Literary Award, the New South Wales Premiers Literary Award and the LA Times Book of the year. He is an Officer for the…

Before this summer, I didn’t know such things as memoirs ever existed. As a bias fiction-lover, I do admit that I was alreading judging this kind of genre by the description. However, what I realized was that how interesting a book is, all depends on the reader and the writer. If a reader is forced to read then the book won’t be as good because the reader has the mental state of unwilling to read the book. This could also happen when the reader wants to read the book but eventually loses…

The concept of myth influences many cowboy narratives. Especially Hollywood movies are full of mythical elements of the American West. Although myths will play a minor role in the analysis of the cowboy biographies, it is necessary to mention some theories of myth and to elaborate on its definition. Historian Richard Slotkin gives an excellent characterization of myth in his book Gunfighter Nation, which will be used for further elaboration. Myths are stories drawn from a society’s history that…

literature. The most philosophical teachers could assert that fiction serves as a self-actualizing force, that people read “to set the darkness echoing” (Heaney 1463). Still more could posit that an English class serves as an introduction to the canon, ensuring that students are well-educated members of society with at least a rudimentary knowledge of literature. Some will say that an English class should teach students how to read a variety of genres and types of literature critically, helping…

In the article “Your Brain on Fiction,” the author, Annie Murphy Paul, explains the neurological effects that reading fiction has on different areas of our brain and its bene- fits to us as humans. She states how researchers have put a significant amount of time and energy into analyzing how reading fiction actively stimulates the human brain and it’s various lobes. With the help of a functional magnetic resonance machine (fMRI) re- searchers can watch which areas of the brain “light” up as a…

first dystopian piece of fiction to be created is credited to the work of H.G. Wells, who published The Time Machine in 1895. Since The Time Machine, hundreds of thousands of dystopian fiction works have been published, making it one of the most popular genres in works with young adult audiences, be it literature or movies. The movie The Hunger Games, based on a book published in 2008 by Suzanne Collins, is one of these works of dystopian fiction. The dystopian genre has several common…

John Kennedy Toole can be, in my opinion, described as one of the most brilliant- and tragic- authors of the 20th century. He is most famous for the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which won a posthumous Pulitzer. The story of how The Neon Bible came to be published is complex, but The Neon Bible begins at the end of the story, with the main character on a dark train, headed to a place even he doesn't know. We know the resolution before we even know who our protagonist is, or why he is running…