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  2. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    (Sci-fi was originally regarded as scientific romance.) [1] Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic; Christian; Comedy; Utopian and dystopian. Dystopian: fiction set in a society that the author views as being worse than the one in which they live in at the time of writing. Example: Brave New World (1932) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

  3. 2020 in literature - Wikipedia

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    [1] May 26–July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale The Ickabog in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. [2] June 25 – Louisa May Alcott's unfinished "Aunt Nellie's Story" (c.1849) is first published, in The Strand Magazine. [3]

  4. CiteScore - Wikipedia

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    In any given year, the CiteScore of a journal is the number of citations, received in that year and in previous three years, for documents published in the journal during the total period (four years), divided by the total number of published documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) in the journal during the same four-year period: [3]

  5. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Examples of expository essays are: a medical or biological condition, social or technological process, life or character of a famous person. The writing of an expository essay often consists of the following steps: organizing thoughts ( brainstorming ), researching a topic, developing a thesis statement , writing the introduction, writing the ...

  6. Literary theory - Wikipedia

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    Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. [1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning. [1]

  7. Literature of England - Wikipedia

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    Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a notable example. [1] Several more recent examples exist of English works written originally in Latin: Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More , [ 2 ] for example, and New Atlantis , [ 3 ] a utopian narrative by Sir Francis Bacon , published in Latin (as Nova Atlantis ) in 1624 and in English in 1627.

  8. Constrained writing - Wikipedia

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    Notable examples of constrained comics: . Gustave Verbeek's The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, a weekly 6-panel comic strip in which the first half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, then the reader would turn the page up-side-down, and the inverted illustrations with additional captions describing the scenes told the second half of the story ...

  9. Portal:Literature - Wikipedia

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    In 1901, French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) was the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection, and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect."