Literary Definition Authors Setting Recurrent themes Text type Examples

genre (novel,poem,sh
ort stories)
Science "it provides Mary Shelley One of the Possible future Novel and short Frankenstein
fiction scientific or Herbert George main scientific and stories The Time
pseudo- Jules Verne characteristics technical Machine
scientific Douglas Adams of this genre is inventions or The War of the
explanations, Brian W. Aldiss that scientific discoveries Worlds
whether based Poul Anderson progress is the Genetic Fantastic
on a rigorous Isaac Asimov protagonist, so engineering and Voyage
documentatio José Luis Zárate there can be cloning. Twenty
n or simply on Gerardo Horacio no story Utopian, dystopian Thousand
the writer’s Porcayo without or apocalyptic Leagues Under
speculation in science or its future. the Sea
order to justify progress. Uchrony. Journey to the
the unlikely Travels in the time. Center of the
events of his Extraterrestrial life. Earth
stories".
Horror is what we Edgar Allan Poe The settings Normally they will Novel, short Tales of the
find physically Mary Shelly are dark and feature characters stories and Grotesque and
horrible, is Bram Stoker full of that become poems Arabesque
when the door Salvador Elizondo references to monsters or Dracula
opens halfway Carlos Fuentes the death. victims. The Tell-Tale
and we saw a Aura Heart
hideous José Emilio
creature from Pacheco
the grave.
Detective is mainly Edgar Allan Poe Detective drug trafficking, Novel The Murders in
literature based on the Conan Doyle and stories are urban tribes, state the Rue Morgue
plot. The Agatha Christie usually crimes, Sherlock
purpose of Raymond narrated in neurolinguistics, Holmes
these novels is Chandler such a way forensic science or The Lady in the
to solve a Rubem Fonseca that the Vatican Lake
crime to find Paco Ignacio reader is conspiracies From the world
the criminal Taibo II usually of prostitution I
and find out identified with only kept the
what was their the detective love for my
motive. and lives cigar
firsthand the Shadow of the
investigation shadow
to finding the
murder.
Postmoder Some authors, Italo Calvino, the texts are Abolition of novel Slaughterhouse-
n literature like Sorondo James Joyce, Don written based distinctions Five
(2011), state DeLillo, Thomas on the black between social Ulysses
that Pynchon, Kurt humor, classes.
postmodern Vonnegut, Paul parody, the Unsustainability of
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 literature Auster and Irvine grotesque and the models of
began in the Welsh. the absurdity. reason and
late 1960s and logocentrism
early 1970, typical of the
with authors Enlightenment.
such as Kurt Problematic
Vonnegut, relationships
Thomas between individual
Pynchon and intention and
John Bart. ideology.
Other
definitions
ensure that
postmodernis
m as a literary
movement
emerged after
the Second
World War, in
the 1950s,
when the Cold
War was in his
peak.
Latin- represents the Julio Cortazar, The reality is misery, Where the Air Is
america first literary Carlos Fuentes, represented in marginalization, Clear
literature movement Gabriel García a fantastic injustice or the One Hundred
that emerged Márquez and way. Magical struggle for power Years of
from Latin Mario Vargas realism Solitude
America and Llosa. appears, in Hopscotch
aroused which fantasy
worldwide. is like a normal
The way in thing.
which writers
handled that
strange
mixture of
reality and
fantasy,
fascinated
thousands of
readers,
making
literature
become a
profitable
phenomenon
again.

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