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| | Genre fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the publishing industry the term "category fiction" is often used as a synonym for genre fiction, with the categories serving as the familiar shelf headings within the fiction section of a bookstore, such as Western or mystery. | | | Western fiction is defined primarily by being set in the American West in the second half of the 19th century, and secondarily by featuring heroes who are rugged, individualistic horsemen (cowboys). | | | In contemporary fiction-publishing, genre is an elastic term used to group works sharing similarities of character, theme, and setting—such as mystery, romance, or horror—that have been proven to appeal to particular groups of readers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_fiction
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| | Western Book Publishing and More Books Categories |
| | Western Book Publishing - Toronto (cp) - here are the 10 best-selling fiction and non-fiction books in canada for the week ending aug. 31 from amazon.ca.Memories of before the storm: books about new orleans 09 04 2005 during the past week, i. | | | Western Book Publishing - Head in and saw a young man surrounded by law books. | | | Western Book Publishing - Books on tape - the literary diet for scores of commuters, exercise buffs and beach bums - are now. |
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http://www.books617.com/i1_Western-Book-Publishing.html
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| | Western (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Western fiction got its start in the "penny dreadfuls" and later the "dime novels" that first began to be published in the mid-nineteenth century. | | | The western was a distinct literary genre before the rise of motion pictures; other important writers were Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour and Elmore Leonard. | | | Westerns, by definition, are set in the American West, almost always in the 19th century, generally between the Antebellum period and the turn of the century. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_film
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| | Western canon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Works which are commonly included in the canon include works of fiction such as epic poems, poetry, music, drama, novels, and other assorted forms of literature from the many, diverse Western (and more recently non-Western) cultures. | | | The Western canon is a canon of books and art (and specifically one with very loose boundaries) that has allegedly been highly influential in shaping Western culture. | | | The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon
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| | Yiddish Literature |
| | Peretz, who had assimilated the influences of the great Russian authors of his time and of the classic literature of Western Europe, was the most intellectual and the most cosmopolitan of the three writers. | | | The brief classical age of Yiddish literature, from the late 19th to the early 20th century, is epitomized in three great writers of fiction: Shalom Jacob Abramowitz, better known as Mendele Mokher Sefarim (Mendele the Itinerant Bookseller); Shalom Aleichem; and Isaac Leib Peretz. | | | Other notable examples of devotional literature are the Maaseh Buch (Story Book, 16th century), a collection of moralistic tales, and the Tehinnot, devotional prayers for women. |
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http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/literature.html
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| | The American West in the English Curriculum |
| | His account of contemporary western novelists is informative: it discusses many of the region's leading writers, at least those who write prose fiction, and it mentions “the early years,” when writers such as Willa Cather and A. Guthrie, Jr., joined Wallace Stegner in “writing against the mythic formula” (p. | | | More selections by westerners have appeared in recent editions of some anthologies, but too often the introductions either fail to discuss adequately the writer's western background or ignore the recent body of western literary scholarship. | | | Western history courses probably also led to the establishment of courses on western literature, since the history courses stimulated an interest in the literature of the West. |
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http://www.mla.org/ade/bulletin/n075/075029.htm
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| | Countries: R-Z page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE |
| | I know of two science fiction films shot on location in Romania: * Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996) yet another Sci-Fi Western, a sequel to Oblivion (1994). | | | The beauty of his language influenced many later prose and poetry works of Fantasy and Science Fiction. | | | Poe's translations by Baudelaire were crucial to the evolution of French symbolism, surrealism, and science fiction. |
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http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/countriesRZ.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan: Books |
| | Amazon.ca: Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan: Books | | | Look for books like Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan by subject: | | | Subjects > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory > General |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312239955
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| | Science Fiction as a Genre in Adolescent Literature |
| | Science fiction is many times described as being a cross between the Romance and the Western genres. | | | Science fiction similarly takes the real world as we know it today, with all its facts and natural laws, as its first postulates. | | | Once you have introduced your theme through the short story, it is hoped that the genre will be more digestible to the reluctant science fiction reader. |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sciencefiction.htm
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| | Haraway_CyborgManifesto.html |
| | The feminist science fiction of Samuel R. Delany, especially Tales of Neveyon, mocks stories of origin by redoing the neolithic revolution, replaying the founding moves of Western civilization to subvert their plausibility. | | | James Tiptree, Jr, an author whose fiction was regarded as particularly manly undl her 'true' gender was revealed, tells tales of reproduction based on non-mammalian technologies like alternation of generations of male brood pouches and male nurturing. | | | The Female Man is the story of four versions of one genotype, all of whom meet, but even taken together do not make a whole, resolve the dilemmas of violent moral action, or remove the growing scandal of gender. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
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| | Pulp Fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Using many elements of a black comedy with many stylistic and pop culture touches, Pulp Fiction weaves through the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles gangsters, fringe characters, petty thieves and a mysterious attaché case. | | | The highly stylized and fluid action sequences and deadpan dialogue were inspired by Italian director Sergio Leone's famed Spaghetti Western pictures of the 1960s. | | | Pulp Fiction is perennially found both on critics' lists (such as the AFI's One Hundred Years, 100 Movies List) and in popular rankings, placing consistently in the top 10 on the IMDB Top 250 List. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction
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| | Arts Literature Genres Western Authors |
| | Rogers, Lincoln - Active member of the Western Writers of America and author of cowboy poetry, western short fiction and western journalism. | | | Learn about this western writer's new books and meet the man who has written over fifty historical titles about the West. | | | Holt, A. - Author of western books, poetry, and other writings. |
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http://iper1.com/iper1-odp/scat/id/Arts/Literature/Genres/Western/Authors
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| | Horror Fiction |
| | Richard Matheson is a master of many genres, science fiction, horror, and even the western. | | | He is the master of the modern tale of cosmic horror. | | | The second novel by this writer of best-selling contemporary romances, such as Outer Banks and Homeplace, is a classic haunted house tale. |
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http://www.wtcpl.lib.oh.us/mobile/horrorfiction.htm
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| | SETON HILL UNIVERSITY - WRITING POPULAR FICTION |
| | Though known primarily as a horror/dark fantasy writer, his work has been published in nearly every genre, including Mystery, Western, and Romance. | | | Students attend two week-long, on-campus residencies each year to master the core elements of fiction writing and effective marketing and to gain inspiration from faculty mentors and special guests, all published authors in genre fiction. | | | Readings, classes, and on-line discussion about the history, trends, and techniques of genre fiction add depth to the student's experience. |
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http://www.setonhill.edu/academics/wpf_homepage.cfm?ACID=102
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| | Home page for the Popular Reading Library Division |
| | The founders were largely authors who wrote traditional western fiction, but the organization swiftly expanded to include historians and other nonfiction authors, young adult and romance writers and writers interested in regional history. | | | This site offers useful definitions for genres, genre-specific fiction finds, lists of must-read authors and genre favourites, the best genre guides and more. | | | Short fiction and commentary from some of the top science fiction and fantasy authors working today including Stephen Baxter, Lisa Goldstein, Paul J. McAuley, Patricia Anthony, Kit Reed, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian McDonald, Greg Egan, Terry Bisson and Ian Watson. |
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http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/prl/genre.html
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| | Contemporary Western American Literature |
| | Bibliographies list writings according to the categories of western fiction and other publications and are further subdivided under pseudonyms. | | | Special sections on women and western literature and the environment and western literature. | | | Embraces major events in the history of the trans-Mississippi West as well as the frontier or "western" stage of all 50 American states. |
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http://www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/academics/library/Guides/westernlit.html
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| | McDonald 2001 |
| | It’s also true that Western philosophers from Plato forward had made “fiction” the antonym of “truth,” — in philosopher’s language, they have defined fiction as beginning, logically, from the rule of truth, — and consigned imaginative writing — i.e., pretty lies — to the philosophical dustbin. | | | Incidentally, I found only one disclaimer in a work for fiction translated from another language and published in England or America: it’s Wolf (several of her books). | | | “This is a work of history in fictional form — that is, in personal perspective, which is the only kind of history that exists. |
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http://www.redlandsfortnightly.org/mcdonald01.htm
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| | Ancient Greece - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Ancient Greek civilisation has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the Renaissance in Western Europe and again during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th and 19th century Europe and The Americas. | | | Ancient Greece is considered by most historians to be the foundational culture of Western Civilization. | | | The period from 1600 to about 1100 is described in History of Mycenaean Greece known for the reign of King Agamemnon and the wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of Homer. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/ancient_greece.htm
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| | Science Fiction as a Genre in Adolescent Literature |
| | Science fiction is many times described as being a cross between the Romance and the Western genres. | | | Science fiction similarly takes the real world as we know it today, with all its facts and natural laws, as its first postulates. | | | Despite its low literary value, this early 20th century science fiction actually turned out to be prophetic. |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sciencefiction.htm
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| | Transgressive fiction |
| | Transgressional fiction is a form of literature in which the story centres around one or more characters who feel confined by the current norms and expectations of (usually Western) society. | | | This is a short list of works of transgressional fiction that are of considerable popularity. | | | The characters are people who have been marginalized in one form or another by society, and who react with often self-destructive aggressiveness (a form of story that the author likes to describe as transgressional fiction). |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/TransgressiveFiction.html
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| | Women and SF |
| | At last we come to cyberpunk, and though one could argue science fiction is finally in a postcyberpunk phase, it is evident that the rest of the world is still coming to terms with the cyberpunk generation. | | | Although the universal language of science and rationality popularized in pulp SF was tailored to a rather narrow, white-male constituency, it could still be construed as a populist refusal of the elitist vehicles of "literary" speech and "metaphysical" discourse that had traditionally dominated Western literate culture. | | | Proto-science fiction includes many gothic narrative examples as well as those written before "The Golden Age."[8] Before science fiction was classified as a separate genre, such authors as H. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne were prime examples of writers creating a fiction considered speculative in nature. |
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http://www.twd.net/ird/forecast/browning.html
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| | Science Fiction as a Genre in Adolescent Literature |
| | Science fiction is many times described as being a cross between the Romance and the Western genres. | | | Science fiction similarly takes the real world as we know it today, with all its facts and natural laws, as its first postulates. | | | Despite its low literary value, this early 20th century science fiction actually turned out to be prophetic. |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sciencefiction.htm
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| | history sf |
| | Until then, feminist authors must infiltrate the system covertly, for as long as science fiction continues to serve as a barometer of popular patriarchal culture, women's roles must be hacked from the circuitry of the male matrix. | | | Although the universal language of science and rationality popularized in pulp SF was tailored to a rather narrow, white-male constituency, it could still be construed as a populist refusal of the elitist vehicles of "literary" speech and "metaphysical" discourse that had traditionally dominated Western literate culture. | | | Proto-science fiction includes many gothic narrative examples as well as those written before "The Golden Age."[3] Before science fiction was classified as a separate genre, such authors as H. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne were prime examples of writers creating a fiction considered speculative in nature. |
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http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html
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| | Women and SF |
| | At last we come to cyberpunk, and though one could argue science fiction is finally in a postcyberpunk phase, it is evident that the rest of the world is still coming to terms with the cyberpunk generation. | | | Although the universal language of science and rationality popularized in pulp SF was tailored to a rather narrow, white-male constituency, it could still be construed as a populist refusal of the elitist vehicles of "literary" speech and "metaphysical" discourse that had traditionally dominated Western literate culture. | | | Proto-science fiction includes many gothic narrative examples as well as those written before "The Golden Age."[8] Before science fiction was classified as a separate genre, such authors as H. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne were prime examples of writers creating a fiction considered speculative in nature. |
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http://www.twd.net/ird/forecast/browning.html
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| | Librarians' Internet Index: http://sfpl.lii.org/pub/topic/fiction |
| | All entries are grouped by genre: western, romance, and mystery/suspense, and speculative (science fiction, fantasy, horror) fiction. | | | Topics: Librarianship, Literature and Books, Literature: Fiction, Mysteries and More | | | Topics: Librarianship, Literature and Books, Literature: Fiction, Society and Social Science |
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http://lii.org/search/file/fiction
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| | Transformation Story Archive Mailing List FAQ: Section Three |
| | He enjoys mostly science fiction and fantasy, and is an avid reader, preferring the long adventure to the quick escape. | | | He is also the writer of several stories on the TSA mailing list, a fan of transformations, science fiction, fantasy, Mercedes Lackey and a wider range of hobbies and interests. | | | Caitlin and her S.O life in the far western suburbs of Chicago with their cats and frequent visits from the children. |
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http://transform.to/~tsa-faq/TSA_FAQ_Section_Three.html
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| | Women and SF |
| | At last we come to cyberpunk, and though one could argue science fiction is finally in a postcyberpunk phase, it is evident that the rest of the world is still coming to terms with the cyberpunk generation. | | | Although the universal language of science and rationality popularized in pulp SF was tailored to a rather narrow, white-male constituency, it could still be construed as a populist refusal of the elitist vehicles of "literary" speech and "metaphysical" discourse that had traditionally dominated Western literate culture. | | | Proto-science fiction includes many gothic narrative examples as well as those written before "The Golden Age."[8] Before science fiction was classified as a separate genre, such authors as H. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne were prime examples of writers creating a fiction considered speculative in nature. |
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http://www.twd.net/ird/forecast/browning.html
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| | history sf |
| | Although the universal language of science and rationality popularized in pulp SF was tailored to a rather narrow, white-male constituency, it could still be construed as a populist refusal of the elitist vehicles of "literary" speech and "metaphysical" discourse that had traditionally dominated Western literate culture. | | | Proto-science fiction includes many gothic narrative examples as well as those written before "The Golden Age."[3] Before science fiction was classified as a separate genre, such authors as H. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne were prime examples of writers creating a fiction considered speculative in nature. | | | At last we come to cyberpunk, and though one could argue science fiction is finally in a postcyberpunk phase, it is evident that the rest of the world is still coming to terms with the cyberpunk generation. |
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http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html
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| | SMERSH - James Bond Literature Forum - ajb007.co.uk |
| | SMERSH is mentioned only twice during the movies: once in FRWL (Colonel Rosa Klebb defected from them) and TLD (which is supposed to be Pushkin's crazy plans to assasinate Western spies). | | | I thought the From Russia With Love book and movie were both good in their own right. | | | Alternatively SMERSH didn't really exist when the films were made (and the books for that mater) being renamed and joining the other security services in 1946 so maybe they didn't want to use an organisation that didn't exist or atleast had changed its name! |
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http://www.ajb007.co.uk/index.php?topic=20462
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