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 ...

Despite popularity and a passionate readership, genre fiction gets a bad rap. The guilty-pleasure, low-culture stigma of Harlequin romances and Dungeons & Dragons–inspired fantasy novels can wrongly ...

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 ...

International Conference Organized by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone), Université Paul Valéry- Montpellier 3, March 15-16 2013. With the support of the Société de Stylistique ...

Cultural critics and academics have long despised self-help books."How-to writers are to other writers as frogs are to mammals," Dwight MacDonald wrote in his 1954 essay "Howtoism." "Their books 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 ...

Earlier this year, the Swedish academy announced that it would not issue a prize for literature. The announcement prompted a flurry of handwringing within the literary community, and the creation of ...