Prose written to warn, to teach or to reflect, including the jeremiad that laments the state of society and foretells its fall, its African-American variant built on promise, failure and prophecy, the meditation that sets out an author's reflections or guides the reader in contemplation, and the self-help book that instructs readers in solving personal problems. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes writing that exhorts, instructs or contemplates. It excludes life writing, travel writing and creative nonfiction, which have their own groups.
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African-American jeremiad, Wikipedia
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The African-American jeremiad is a variant of the jeremiad literary form consisting of three parts in order: promise, failure, and prophecy.
Jeremiad - Wikipedia
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A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
Meditation (writing) - Wikipedia
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A meditation (derived from the Latin meditatio, from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder") is a written work or discourse intended to express its author's reflections, or to guide others in contemplation.
Self-help (Wikipedia)
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Self-help or self-improvement is "a focus on self-guided, in contrast to professionally guided, efforts to cope with life problems", economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally-often with a substantial psychological basis.
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