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(fiction) A genre of fiction based around or involving ahistorical events (often occurring after a fixed point of divergence from real history).
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(literature) A work of fiction in which the author breaks in some way the conventional rules of storytelling, usually with some feature (for example, a lack of plot or characters, unusual punctuation, odd subject or presentation, etc.) that strongly challenges the reader's expectations.
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A dramatic work that opposes or shuns the usual conventions of drama.
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(literature) A novel that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the novel, such as a coherent plot and protagonist.
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Alternative spelling of anti-story [(literature) A work of fiction in which the author breaks in some way the conventional rules of storytelling, usually with some feature (for example, a lack of plot or characters, unusual punctuation, odd subject or presentation, etc.) that strongly challenges the reader's expectations.]
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Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by an artist to achieve a desired effect.
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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an author.
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Relating to Bibliodrama.
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The literary style of Dante Alighieri.
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A writer of a book divided into decades.
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A writer of epistles or letters.
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The writing style associated with essays.
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(literary criticism) A style of modern fiction, similar to magical realism and postmodernism.
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(informal, rare) Similar to fiction.
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(informal, rare) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fiction.
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(literature) A fictionalized biography; a biography written about a fictional character. For example, Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift but presented as being written by Lemuel Gulliver, the novel's main character.
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A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
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A florid literary style with many puns etc.
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An author of hyperfiction
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Relating to hyperfiction.
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The literary style associated with Franz Kafka
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One who studies legends.
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(obsolete) A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
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A French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism.
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(historical) The persecution of intellectuals on the basis of their writings as practiced in imperial China.
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literary style or expression
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A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
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(rare) A literary work other than a novel.
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The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization
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Novel thoughts or interpretations, usually associated with Jewish commentaries (see Chidush); any novel interpretation of a venerated text.
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literature not thought of as literary (any fiction other than novels)
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(rare) A collector or writer of proverbs.
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(literature) The influential style of Petrarch.
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Alternative letter-case form of Poe's law [The observation that, on the Internet, without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is impossible to tell the difference between sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.]
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(literature) A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).
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(literature) A person in a play or book embodying an author's viewpoint.
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An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
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The expression of one's point of view or feelings towards society, usually through literature.
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A style of fiction that rejects realism and advertises its own fictional status, similar to metafiction, postmodernism or fabulation.
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(rare) Poetry or literature, especially that which is excessively proper or moralist; literature by or in the style of Henry T. Tuckerman.
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The creation of a world, as for example in writing fiction.
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