Founding Works of Genre Fiction
Genres and Forms · 5 questions
Five questions on the specific works and authors literary scholarship credits with founding Gothic fiction, detective fiction, science fiction and the Bildungsroman, plus the English sonnet's own origin.
Genres and Forms Beyond the Western Canon
Genres and Forms · 5 questions
Five questions on this wave's own research into world genres and forms: Arabic maqama, the Spanish picaresque, the Persian rubaiyat, Italian ottava rima and Japanese renga.