Literary Prose and Hybrid Genres

Prose forms that mix fact and invention or collect varied material under a literary heading, including belles-lettres as fine writing outside the main categories of fiction and drama, autofiction as fictionalized autobiography, the Arabic adab al-kudya of trickery and persuasive begging, and the bestiary that collects descriptions of animals. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes a literary prose form that crosses the line between fiction and nonfiction or gathers mixed material. It excludes the very short fiction forms, which have their own group.