Different Genres

As well as historical events, the Topics database lists over a hundred different literary genres and sub-genres. Here are a few to get you started. To find all of our Genre entries, use the search provided on this shelf.

Articles
Autobiography	2000 BCE
Ballad	1400
Epic	700 BCE
Fantastic, The	1772
Folk song (British)	1750
Genre, Genre Theory
German Courtly Romance	1170 - 1314
Horror	1760
Jacobin Novel	1780 - 1814
Magic Realism, Magical Realism	1960
Modernism	1870 - 1940
Postmodernism	1950 - 2005
Satire and the Academic Novel	1950
Theatre of the Absurd	1945 - 1975
Tragedy	500 BCE
Searches
Find Topics entries on Genres	[Ctopics]