Literature

Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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thriller

Literature; Genre

Thrillers are a genre of literature, film, video gaming and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenre is ...

medieval fantasy

Literature; Genre

Medieval fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that encompasses medieval era high fantasy and sometimes simply represents fictitious versions of historic events. This subgenre is ...

melodrama

Literature; Genre

A melodrama is a dramatic work that puts characters in a lot of danger in order to appeal to the emotions. Language, behaviour, or events which resemble melodramas are also called ...

memoir

Literature; Genre

Memoir (from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence), is a literary nonfiction genre. More specifically, it is a collection of memories that an individual writes ...

men's adventure

Literature; Genre

Men's adventure is a genre of magazines that had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured glamour photography and lurid tales of ...

messiah

Literature; Genre

A messiah is a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the Abrahamic religions. In the Hebrew Bible, a messiah (or mashiach) is a king or High Priest ...

metafiction

Literature; Genre

Metafiction, also known as romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, uses self-reference to draw attention to itself as a work of art, while exposing the ...