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<a href="/wiki/Portal:Language_and_literature" title="Portal:Language and literature">Language and literature</a></div></div></div><div class="wst-header-central-cell wst-unknown-central-cell"><span class="wst-header-title wst-unknown-title">General Literature</span></div><div class="wst-header-forward searchaux wst-unknown-forward wst-header-nav-empty"><div class="wst-header-forward-link"></div><div class="wst-header-forward-arrow">→</div></div></div><div class="wst-header-notes header_notes searchaux wst-unknown-notes wst-portal-header-notes"><div class="wst-header-left header_notes_left_content wst-unknown-left"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r14317267">.mw-parser-output .wst-portal-class{background:#f9f9f9;color:#202122;border:solid #aaa 1px;font-size:0.90em;margin:0.5ex 1.00em 1.00em 0;padding:4px;min-width:6em;text-align:center;display:inline-block}.mw-parser-output .wst-portal-class-title{font-size:0.90em;font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output .wst-portal-class-text{font-size:144%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .wst-portal-class-base{font-size:0.90em}</style><div class="wst-portal-class"><div class="wst-portal-class-title">Class</div><div class="wst-portal-class-text"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Language_and_literature" title="Portal:Language and literature">P</a><a class="mw-selflink selflink">N</a></div><div class="wst-portal-class-base"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Portals" title="Portal:Portals">Main</a>/<a href="/wiki/Portal:Index" title="Portal:Index">Index</a></div></div></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r14321584">.mw-parser-output .plainSister{display:block;font-size:93%;line-height:normal;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none;list-style-position:outside;border:1px solid #AAA;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5ex 0 0.5ex 0.5ex;padding:0;background:#FFFFFF;color:#202122}.mw-parser-output .sisicon,.mw-parser-output .dabicon{padding-right:1ex}</style><ul class="plainSister"><li class="sisitem"><span class="sisicon"><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix" title="Special:SiteMatrix"><img alt="Sister Projects" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Wikimedia-logo.svg/18px-Wikimedia-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Wikimedia-logo.svg/27px-Wikimedia-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Wikimedia-logo.svg/36px-Wikimedia-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1024" /></a></span></span><a href="/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix" title="Special:SiteMatrix">sister projects</a>: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108293675" class="extiw" title="d:Q108293675">Wikidata item</a></li></ul><div class="wst-header-content header_notes_content wst-header-notes-content wst-unknown-notes-content"> <p>Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources (although, under circumstances they can be exempt). Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction.<span class="error deprecated-template-warning" style="display:none;">Warning: template has been deprecated.</span> </p> </div></div></div><div style="float:left; width:50%;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r14316948">.mw-parser-output .wst-box-header-title{clear:both;border:1px solid #ababab;border-width:1px 1px 0;background:#bcbcbc;color:#202122;padding:0.1em;text-align:center;margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .wst-box-header-editlink{float:right;margin-bottom:.1em;font-size:80%}.mw-parser-output .wst-box-header-body{border:1px solid #ababab;border-top-width:1px;vertical-align:top;margin:0 0 10px;padding:.3em 1em 1em 1em}</style><div class="wst-box-header"><div class="wst-box-header-title" style="color:black;background:#DDE;border-color:#36A;"><div class="wst-box-header-editlink plainlinks" style="color:black;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:General_literature/Genre&action=edit"><span style="color: black">edit</span></a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Portal:General_literature/Genre" title="Portal:General literature/Genre"><span style="color: black">view</span></a>   </div><h2 id="Genre" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:bold; border: none; margin: 0; padding:0; padding-bottom:.1em; color:black;">Genre</h2> </div> <div class="wst-box-header-body" style="color:black;background:white;border-color:#36A;"> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Old_book_bindings.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Colour photograph of the top of old books on a shelf, with frayed edges, warped pages and similar signs of age." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Old_book_bindings.jpg/220px-Old_book_bindings.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Old_book_bindings.jpg/330px-Old_book_bindings.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Old_book_bindings.jpg/440px-Old_book_bindings.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Old book bindings at the Merton College, Oxford library.</figcaption></figure> <p>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.<span class="error deprecated-template-warning" style="display:none;">Warning: template has been deprecated.</span> </p><p>The following portals list works on Wikisource sorted by genre: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Christian_fiction" title="Portal:Christian fiction">Portal:Christian fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Cowboys" title="Portal:Cowboys">Portal:Cowboys</a> (covers Western fiction)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Horror" title="Portal:Horror">Portal:Horror</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Portal:Cthulhu Mythos">Portal:Cthulhu Mythos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Ghost_stories" title="Portal:Ghost stories">Portal:Ghost stories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Gothic_fiction" title="Portal:Gothic fiction">Portal:Gothic fiction</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portal:Humour" title="Portal:Humour">Portal:Humour</a></li> <li><a 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