The children’s novel, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl (1916–1990) combines the conventions of children’s fiction with a medieval morality play, in which obvious cases of vice are ...

Ranked the top writing university in the nation, the University of Iowa’s professors of English and creative writing offer a plethora of unique courses, tackling special topics both in the classroom ...

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

The second half of the standard expected of every high school graduate needs explanation: “The learner demonstrates literary and communicative competence through his/her understanding of the different ...

This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

Critics may not believe the hype, but millions of readers do. New Adult(NA) fiction is one of publishing's newest and most controversial genres. It's a little like Young Adult fiction, but for people ...

TikTok's popular BookTok channel has been buzzing about a new genre called "romantasy'' that is spawning whole sections in bookstores. Jeffrey Brown visited the stacks and talked to author Rebecca ...

Speculative fiction or spec fic refers to stories that involve speculation about society, the future, and everything in between. But when it comes to Filipino speculative fiction as a literary genre, ...