1. BY Nungki Heriyati, S.S., M.A
Literary Genre
BY Nungki Heriyati, S.S., M.A

2. Literary Genre
Narrative Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction

3. Narrative Fiction
A narrative is an account of series of events, usually fictional, although sometimes fictional events may be tied to events that are genuinely historical
Example of narrative fiction:
The most common: Short story and novel
Myths, parable, romances, and epic

4. Division of Fiction
Fabel : The story about animal and human being, have moral lesson.
Legend: The story related to the existence of certain place
Folktale: traditional related to supernatural events or person. Ex. Aladin
Fairly tale: Untrue story. Ex. Snow White
Epic : Heroism

5. Modern Fiction Novel: relatively long (more than 100 pages)
Short Story: Relatively short, several pages

6. Sub genre of Novel:
Epistolary novel : novel in the form of letter ex. Richardson’s Pamela and Clarissa
Picaresque novel: relates the experience of vagrant rouge in his conflict with the social norms of the society. Structured as an episodic narrative, the picaresque novel tries to lay bare social injustice in a satirical way.
Bildungsroman: embodied presuppositions about when and how people mature and in turn encourage its reader to see that process of maturation in the terms the novel itself has established.
Historical Novel: tell about story with certain historical background
New Journalism : the genre of the novel based on real events
Satirical Novel :Criticize something (social, politic) ex. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver travel
Gothic Novel: Tell about a strange story related to the beliefs of the Goths. Ex. Dracula
Detective Novel: Tell about crime and investigation with the purpose of finding criminal. Ex. Murder in Orient Express (Agatha Christy)

7. Poetry
Poetry is compress and highly emotional form of expression.
Sonnet, lyric, pastoral, ballad, song, ode, epic,and mock epic
Poetry relies more heavily than prose on imagery that is on a comparative, allusive, suggestive form of expression that is applicable to a wide number of human situations.
The rhythms of poetic (music of poetry) speech become as vital as emotions and ideas.
Some poetic forms are fairly free, particularly poetry written since the time of the American Poet ‘Walt Whitman’

8. Poetry
Elegy : an expression of bereavement, melancholy or poignant controlled
Lyric : Straightforward expression of feeling, A short expression of personal feeling
Pastoral : it has rural background, with the poet sometimes writing in the character of a countryman, usually a shepherd, and often comparing an uncongenial present with an imagined past Golden Age or at least a vanished social order.
Ballad : Longer poetic form
Ode : Another variant of Lyric, it addresses itself to one subject and often employs stanza-forms with lines of varying length and rhyme schemes which aid in the generally formal and lofty manner
Sonnet : It has a consistent rhyming pattern
Epic : Heroic story
Mock Epic : A mock of heroic story

9. Drama
Drama/ Play is designated to be performed on a stage by live actors. It consists of dialogue together with direction for action. It focuses on a single character or a small number of characters. Drama does not rely on narration. Drama VS Narrative Fiction: Drama shows you, people talking and doing; however, narrative fiction tells you about these activities.

10. Non-Fiction
Nonfiction Prose → Essay and articles in a short form and longer non-fictional and non-dramatic works. The essay or article is a form designed primarily to express idea, interpretation and description. The topic is wide range; they may be social, political, artistic, scientific and other subject.
In an essay an author focuses on one topic.

11. Function of literary genre
In comparing genre as in comparing different personalities, we find that various elements may assume the same function: some people express their aggressiveness by making satirical comment and others by playing team sports.
The role of genre serves in actual literary works- and in so doing indicate how much it has affected writers and how much it can and should affect us as a reader.

12. Examine the story bellow and try to determine the genre.
“The clock on the mantel piece said ten thirty, but someone had suggested recently that the clock was wrong. As the figure of the dead woman lay on the bed in the front room, no less silent figure glided rapidly from the house. The only sound to be heard were ticking of that clock and loud waiting of an infant.”

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