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LITERARY WORKS LITERARY TECHNIQUES AND GENRES

1. THE LIGHT EATER 1. FABULATION- a rejection of realism
- Kirsty Logan which embraces the notion that literature is
- Magical Realism
a created work and not bound by mimesis
- Scotland
- Death of her father and verisimilitude.
2. KISS - popularized by Robert
- Carlos Ruiz Safron Scholes, in his work The Fabulators.
- Blog Fiction 2. MAGIC REALISM- Also known as
- Spain "marvelous or fantastic realism".
- Laura
-introduction of fantastic
- Began and ended with a kiss
- Psychoanalytic Analysis or impossible elements into
3. BLOOD OF A MOLE a narrative that is otherwise
- Zdravka Evtimova normal.
- Short Story - One Hundred Years of
- Bulgaria Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
4. POISON
Marquez
- Henrietta Rose- Innes
- Science Fiction 3. METAFICTION- Writing about writing or
- South Africa foregrounding the apparatus.
- Lynn (Main Character) -A deconstructionist
- Racist approach
- saved with 3 attempts. - Artificiality of art or the
5. THE BUS DRIVER WHO WANTED TO BE GOD
fictionality of fiction
- Etgar Keret
- Short Story apparent to the reader.
- Israel 4. PASTICHE- To combine, or “paste”
- HAPPINESS (Eddie’s name) together, multiple elements.
6. THE BURNING KITE 5. BLACK HUMOR- is a comic style that
- Ouyang Jianghe makes light of subject matter that is
- Translated by : Austin Woerner
generally considered taboo
- Poetry
- China -makes use of a
7. MIDWINTER FAIR completely distorted sense
- Peter Howard of logic; the author entirely
- Hypertext Poetry resists our usual sense of
- Great Britain logic.
8. TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST EVERYTHING
-Used for works
- Francisco X. Alarcon
- Poetry characterized by a
- Mexico desperate, sardonic humor
9. ATLANTIS- A LOST SONNET intended to induce laughter
- Eavan Boland as the appropriate response
- Poetry to the apparent
- Ireland
meaninglessness and
10. HYDE PARK
- Petina Gappah absurdity of existence
- Creative Nonfiction
- Zimbabwe
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6. INTERTEXTUALITY- there relationship
10. SPECULATIVE FICTION- science and
between one text (a novel for example) and
technology futuristic.
another or one text within the interwoven
11. HYPERTEXT POETRY- is poetry that has
fabric of literary history.
had hyperlinks embedded into it by the
-A reference or
reader. 
parallel to another
12. MICRO FICTION- It’s a subset of flash
literary work , an
fiction—those super short stories typically
extended discussion of a
told in 1,000 words or less. Definitions vary,
work, or the adoption of
but for the most part, is any story told in
a style.
300 words or less, and could even be as
-“Pierre Menard,
short as a few words.
Author of the Quixote”
by Jorge Borges
7. BLOG FICTION- Dustin, blog fiction is a
"serialized literature published to a blog
that is written in a diary format.
8. TWITTERATURE- (a portmanteau of
Twitter and literature) is a literary use of
the microblogging service of Twitter. It
includes various genres, including
aphorisms, poetry, and fiction (or some
combination thereof) written by individuals
or collaboratively.
Examples:
*A boy with a scar the shape of a lightening
bolt and an evil conquering spirit split into
seven fight for the control of magical
Britain#HarryPotter
*A boy who lived under a cruel Stepfather
and a kind mother never expected to be the
son of the God of seas and
oceans.#PercyJackson
*On the back of the Declaration of
Independance lays the map to treasures
accumulated from the time of ancient
Egypt#NatonalTreasure
9. FLASH FICTION- is a medium of brief and
enclosed stories. Its average word count
ranges anywhere from five to 1,500 words,
but the consensus is that the maximum
tops out at 2,000.