genre fiction
English
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Noun
[edit]genre fiction (usually uncountable, plural genre fictions)
- (authorship) Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.
- 2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Genre fiction encourages a focus on one aspect at the expense of others. This can produce an obsessive, powerful work. But a literary novel has, somewhere, to open out into the universal.
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[edit]- crime fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, horror, romance, science fiction, speculative fiction, thriller, western
See also
[edit]- The English genres category