Literary Genres K-12 developed by the California Department of Education lists and defines each genre.
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There are stories about:
Adventures
Animal characters
Bullying, teasing, ignoring
Fairy Tales see discussion below
Folklore, mythology (electronic folklore and mythology e-texts)
Family relationships, Romantic relationships
Famous people, little people
Foreign Cultures
Moral issues
Old times and various places
Professions, hobbies (sports, arts, science, knitting)
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Fairy Tales, according to Propp (1970), are built on the following sequence of functions:
Preparation -- the hero violates the rule
Complications -- the hero is approached with a request
Transference -- the hero leaves home; is tested or attacked
Struggle -- the hero and the villain join in direct combat
Return -- the hero returns
Recognition -- the true hero is recognized
Take any well known story (e.g., Anne of Green Gables, Charlotte's web, Peter Rabbit, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Three Little Pigs, The Frog Prince, and on and on) and run the Propp's sequence.
It doesn't have to be a fairy tale !
An example: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.
Preparation: the hero is Jerry Renault
Complication: Jerry is approached by the Vigils (Archie Costello, Leon)
Transference: Jerry is harassed, bullied, locker vandalized
Struggle: A boxing match between Jerry and Emile (Jerry is badly beaten)
etc.
Some well represented names include:
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
Willa Cather (1876-1947)
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Edna Ferber (1885-1968)
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992)
M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992)
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
Nadine Gordimer (1923
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960)
Anais Nin (1903-1977)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Jean Rhys (1894-1979)
Jean Rhys (1894-1979)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)Eudora Welty (1909
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
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