Adventure Fiction
Adventure fiction is a genre of literature that features exciting and often dangerous journeys, quests, and escapades. It typically involves high-stakes action, exploration of exotic locations, and encounters with perilous situations. The genre often focuses on the protagonist's bravery, resourcefulness, and ability to overcome obstacles in the pursuit of adventure.
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eBook - ePubWHAT'S YOUR PLAN
A Pathway to Writing and Publishing Your Work
- Alberta Lampkins(Author)
- 2015(Publication Date)
- A.L. Savvy Publications(Publisher)
...Choosing a genre that fits you will help you to target your desired audience, connect with your readers and market your book. Your book is unique and though you may not think it deserves a label, it does. If you have a hard time figuring out what genre your book fits in, find books that are similar to your style and see where they are shelved in the bookstores. This should help. Here is list of some popular genres; however, you may find a broader selection and a varied definition. Adventure Fiction : stories in which characters are involved in dangerous and/or exhilarating exploits. Allegory : a story using symbolism to express truths about the human condition. Autobiography : a history of a person’s life, written or told by that person, often written in narrative form of the person’s life. Biography : a written account of another person’s life. Christian fiction : is writing that deals with Christian themes and incorporates the Christian world view. Comedy : a story with elements and situations intended to amuse. Comedy-drama : a story with both humorous and serious elements. Detective fiction : stories based on the commission and/or investigation of wrongdoing. Drama : stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action. Epic : originally a long poem celebrating the exploits of a factual or fictitious hero, but now applied to prose works on the same level as well. Detective fiction : stories in which the protagonist investigates a crime. Fantasy fiction : stories involving imaginary beings in the real world or in an alternate reality and assuming suspension of disbelief about magic and/or supernatural...
eBook - ePub- Jerome De Groot(Author)
- 2009(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...The books abound with detail, mainly military, martial and technical. What can be seen with early twentieth-century historical fiction is the bifurcation of historical romance into that for men and that for women; the one concerned with adventure and quest, the other with love and relationships (Hughes 1993: 10–11). Novels for girls and women, as demonstrated in the previous section of this chapter, are generally historical romances, with an element of adventure at times but more narratives of social, personal and cultural development and crisis rather than journeys, quests or achievements. This problematic gendering, seeing violent men interested in factual detail, dissident women concerned with relationships and love, is increasingly a feature of historical fiction throughout the twentieth century. It is also the case that women's historical fiction is more interested in challenging and problematising, particularly by the account of women's repression, whereas male historical novels articulate a masculinity that may be marginalised by class but is still very much articulate, with some agency and means of self-expression. Whilst a soldier may be constrained by the rules of the army, these novels do not consider the lot of men to be so bad, and, indeed, their enhanced physical and social mobility is in clear contrast to the women in female romance novels. The key genres of which male historical fiction is a hybrid are adventure narratives, which have their grounding in nineteenth-century adventure romances, military history, fantasy and epic. Two key novelists provide some of the important paradigms for twentieth-century historical Adventure Fiction. Alexandre Dumas's novels of the Musketeers considered French seventeenth-century history as part of a narrative of excitement, valour and honour. The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847) all contain long, involved adventure quests...
eBook - ePubIndian Genre Fiction
Pasts and Future Histories
- Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Aakriti Mandhwani, Anwesha Maity(Authors)
- 2018(Publication Date)
- Routledge India(Publisher)
...Pleasure in genre fiction comes from the dialectic of similarities and differences between texts belonging to the same genre, and sometimes these differences also become transgeneric as tropes are shared; for instance, when mythology fiction, folklore, and fantasy slip into each other or when detective fiction and romance become aligned. The volume also questions the gendered category of genres. Romance is not fiction for women alone, just as detective fiction is not for men alone and science fiction is not only for scientists. Genres also continuously reshape the boundaries of the real and the fantastical, especially in the genres that ostensibly appear most divorced from any realist purpose such as fantasy or science fiction. Indeed, genre fiction is directly political: it politicises what is taken for granted, bringing the unquestionable such as the sanctity of myth into a space where it can be questioned for relevance and critiqued for social, ethical, and moral values. Genre fiction maintains its political relevance through a healthy use of satire and other comedic devices, challenging authority accorded to figures of power and influence. Far from reading the popularity of genre fiction as a drawback, we argue that it is this popularity itself that can make genre fiction a fecund site for articulation of mass resistance and disillusionment with the status quo. Yet its popularity may just as easily be a political tool for distributing problematic ideas of 'apos;nation', even creating new myths to replace the old ones. These myths may be myths of science (national science or ‘Vedic science’), of progress (how English may serve as a facilitator in the upwardly mobile aspirations of poorer classes), and of new national identities built on mythical pasts (the idea of a great, rejuvenated Indian nation)...
