Portal:General literature

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Genre

Old book bindings at the Merton College, Oxford library.

Genre (from the French "genre" meaning "kind" or "sort") is the term for any category of literature based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones are discontinued. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.— Excerpted from Genre on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The following portals list works on Wikisource sorted by genre:

• Portal:Christian fiction
• Portal:Cowboys (covers Western fiction)
• Portal:Horror
  • Portal:Cthulhu Mythos
  • Portal:Ghost stories
  • Portal:Gothic fiction
• Portal:Humour
• Portal:Adventure
• Portal:Fantasy
• Portal:Mystery (includes Crime & Detective fiction)
• Portal:Romance
• Portal:Science fiction
• Portal:Thriller (includes Suspense fiction)

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Children

• Portal:Children's literature
  • Portal:Newbery Medal
  • Portal:Stratemeyer Syndicate
• Portal:Children's poetry

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Journalism

• Portal:Journalism

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Period

• Portal:Modern fiction

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Non-fiction

• Portal:Non-fiction
• Portal:Modern non-fiction

• Portal:Journals
• Portal:Essays

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Other media

• Portal:Comics
• Portal:Quotations

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Study of literature

• Portal:Literary criticism
• Portal:Literary history
• Portal:Literary theory
• Portal:Nobel Prize in Literature

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Verse

1835 painting of Lord Byron in Albanian dress

Poetry (from the Greek poiesis, with a broad meaning of a "making") is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.— Excerpted from Poetry on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Wikisource has a main portal for poetry as well as portals that collect works by period, subject, or form:

• Portal:Poetry

Period

• Portal:Ancient poetry
• Portal:Medieval poetry
• Portal:Renaissance poetry
• Portal:Enlightenment poetry
• Portal:Romantic poetry
• Portal:Modern poetry

Type

• Portal:Christian poetry
• Portal:Islamic poetry

Subject

• Portal:Love poetry
• Portal:War poetry

Form

• Portal:Limericks

Nation

• Portal:Poets Laureate of the United Kingdom
• Portal:United States Poets Laureate

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Oratory

• Portal:Oration
  • Portal:Public addresses
  • Portal:Speeches
    • Portal:Early modern speeches
    • Portal:Modern speeches

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Drama

• Portal:Drama
• Portal:Plays
• Portal:Scripts

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Correspondence

• Portal:Letters
• Portal:Death threats
• Portal:Resignations
• Portal:Suicide notes

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External resources

• Subclass PN on Project Gutenberg
• Call number PN on the Online Books Page