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plot are perceived entirely as historically or factually real, while a work is regarded as fiction if it deviates from reality in any of those areas. The distinction is further obscured by a philosophical understanding, on the one hand, that the truth can be presented through imaginary channels and constructions, while, on the other hand, works of the imagination can just as well bring about significant new perspectives on, or conclusions about, truth and reality.
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lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific, the more the merrier. ... I'm a genre writer of a sort. I write literary fiction, which is like spy fiction or chick lit".
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assume responsibility for presenting information (and sometimes opinion) based only in historical and factual reality. Despite the traditional view that fiction and non-fiction are opposites, some works (particularly in the modern era) blur this boundary, particularly works that fall under certain
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continuation of such positions determined not by book sales but by critical acclaim by other established literary authors and critics. On the other hand, he suggests, genre fiction writers tend to support themselves by book sales. However, in an interview,
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2333:Journal of Cognition and Culture
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1831:, English actor and comedian
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2403:"The "Invention of Fiction""
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2100:. Bloomsbury Publishing.
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2063:"Definition of 'fiction"
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2274:Friend, Stacie (2017).
1870:dramatic representation
1700:The Things They Carried
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2172:How Fiction Works
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2073:on 27 August 2022
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1597:Terrence Rafferty
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148:radio dramas
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4457:Metafiction
4452:Narratology
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4116:Pop culture
3997:Short story
3975:Epic poetry
3696:Time travel
3509:Red herring
3494:Plot device
3465:Frame story
3418:Cliffhanger
3361:Tritagonist
3336:Protagonist
2797:12 November
2748:12 November
2722:(1): 21–23.
2316:24 November
1893:Nazi German
1863:Oscar Wilde
1709:Vietnam War
1695:Tim O'Brien
1667:Buzz Aldrin
1653:Jules Verne
1571:John Updike
1480:fan fiction
1429:video games
1407:, and many
1405:comic books
1387:(including
1373:fairy tales
1293:agnosticism
1280:Don Quixote
1181:objectively
1105:autofiction
1092:non-fiction
944:Composition
821:Tragicomedy
660:Verse novel
548:Non-fiction
452:Speculative
391:Short story
261:spoken word
251:Performance
224:heroic epic
160:video games
92:individuals
70:fantastical
62:protagonist
4511:Categories
4377:Continuity
4246:Nonfiction
4210:Underwater
4106:Picaresque
4081:Historical
4066:Epistolary
3938:Fairy tale
3849:Peripeteia
3831:Exposition
3587:Dreamworld
3529:Stereotype
3499:Plot twist
3247:Antagonist
3073:References
2699:21 October
2673:6 December
2118:30 January
1773:(1886) or
1707:about the
1639:archetypes
1547:literature
1395:, dramas,
1289:empiricism
1231:New Comedy
1117:docudramas
1063:James Wood
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