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5 days ago · fiction, literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction genre include the novel, short story, and novella.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · The novel is a genre of fiction, and fiction may be defined as the art or craft of contriving, through the written word, representations of human life that instruct or divert or both.
- Anthony Burgess
- A novel is an invented prose narrative of significant length and complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience. Its roots can be traced...
- A novel can accommodate an almost infinite number of elements. Some of the novel's typical elements, though, are the story or plot, the characters,...
- The novel has an extensive range of types, among them being: historical, picaresque, sentimental, Gothic, psychological, novel of manners, epistola...
16 hours ago · Fiction, 1957. Merrill gained prominence in the 1950s and ’60s as a poet. His father, Charles, was a founder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, a man of enormous wealth and influence whose ...
5 days ago · How much fact should you have in your fiction? I am suffering from factual flatulence. I know, I know – but hear me out. The vortex of research has pulled me over the event horizon of fictional reality and I have started to include too much factual information by way of explanation and dialogue.
2 days ago · Cole Hadon has an interesting newsletter, as is normal from him, entitled F&ck Your Facts about the place that facts play in fiction. He is channeling Warner Herzog and the concept of ecstatic truth: Today, I want to share with you his theory of storytelling, which informs every work of art he creates. It involves an idea he describes as
6 days ago · The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'. Examines mock-documentary through the specific relationship which the form has with documentary.
1 day ago · Disinformation, fake news, and deepfakes — spreading misleading and often malicious narratives — have become a global epidemic, and they open the door to people around the world for cyberattacks, political and social manipulation, and damage to the geopolitical landscape. In the U.S. fake local news sites now outnumber legitimate newspapers.
