What is a Literary Genre?

A “genre” is a partic
ular style or type of
writing.
Chick Lit Novels
Emma: by Jane Austen. Matchmaker Emma Woodhouse is the popular rich girl in town but has no idea how t
o handle her own love life. This novel has been turned into several films and even adapted for modern-day a
udiences as the movie Clueless, starring Alicia Silverstone.
Memoirs of a Geisha: by Arthur Golden. This hearbreaking story about survival in 1930s Japan reveals the la
st days of the sometimes cruel but mobilizing geisha culture in Kyoto.
Gone With the Wind: by Margaret Mitchell. This guilty pleasure is also considered one of the
most important and successful books of the 20th century, and the story of Scarlett O'Hara
and the Civil War was turned into an Ocar-winning film.
Anna Karenina: by Leo Tolstoy. Passion, loyalty, society and family all come into play in this
dramatic epic novel that is considered one of the greatest works of fiction of all time.
Pride and Prejudice: by Jane Austen. One of the most-read books of all time, Jane Austen's
Pride and Prejudice is also a critics' favorite.
The Joy Luck Club: by Amy Tan. Four mothers and four daughters — who don't always get along — share
their stories of immigration, growing up in China, and life in San Francisco in this popular novel.
Pop Culture Phenomena
These books haven't just been made into films: they're veritable pop culture phenomena in their own right.
Bridget Jones's Diary: by Helen Fielding. This underdog novel inspired a sequel and two movies starring Renee Zellwegger a
s British singleton/top journalist Bridget Jones.
The Devil Wears Prada: by Lauren Weisberger. The character Miranda Priestly is supposedly based on real-life Vogue editor
Anna Wintour in this fashion insider's book that was turned into a movie, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.
The Nanny Diaries: by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. This novel about a worked-to-death young nanny on New York's
Upper East Side was adapted into a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Laura Linney.
Sex and the City: by Candace Bushnell. This novel about four successful friends in New York City inspired the award-winning
TV show that's now a pop culture phenomenon.
Gossip Girl: by Cecily von Ziegesar. This series of young adult novels about scheming prep school kids from New York's Uppe
r East Side reached mainstream popularity and cult-hit status when it was turned into a TV show on the CW.
Confessions of a Shopaholic: by Sophie Kinsella. Isla Fisher starred in the film version of this book about a girl with a spendi
ng problem who finds her true calling in the magazine industry. Four other novels round out the series.
The Notebook: by Nicholas Sparks. This is one of Sparks' most popular novels and helped jumpstart the career of Rachel Mc
Adams, who was featured in the movie.
This genre, also called cyberpoetry as well as other names, has many
definitions and, like hyperfiction, is difficult to categorize. Much poetry on
the web is basically just traditional work uploaded. True hyperpoetry refers
to works of verse (although not necessarily in lines and stanzas) which
could not be presented without the computer. Hyperpoetry includes verse
with links to sub-poems or footnotes, poetry “generators,” poetry with
movement or images. Hyperpoetry is usually highly steeped in the visual an
sometimes involves parts that are read in varying orders.

~~Hypertextual poems is also a part of hyperpoetry where readers move

from one website to another because of embedded links in the words,
sometimes not returning to the original pages at all.
Hyperpoem by Renne Chua
Speculative fiction encompasses science fiction,
fantasy, and horror, as well as more specific
genres such as alternate history, post-apocalyptic,
superhero, supernatural, utopian and dystopian.
In essence, the term refers to any story that does
not take place in the real world and does not
incorporate only real-world elements.
 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins,
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien,

Note that the definition of speculative fiction

also applies to movies, television series and other
forms of media.