Hard-boiled detective fiction refers to a style of crime writing originating in America, which involves a tough and realistic approach to the genre. ... Day's crime thriller 'The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender' explores the basic characteristics of traditional detective fiction along the streets of Sydney while introducing an inversion of the genre. ... Day conforms to and challenges the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction through the inversion of the protagonist as a female detective, Claudia Valentine, a central character who pushes the boundaries of the detective fi...

• Word Count: 1114
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideal image of the epic hero continues to live in valuable memory of a novelistic genre. Reader's expectations are deceived and at the same time come true in new convincingly motivated turn of events as the idea of the novel as a genre is defined with becoming the person. ... Since these "instants" before the reader's eyes, at his interested partnership as he is involved and willingly gives himself to involve in discussion of variants of development of a plot, the aleatorica of the novel is unwrapped, supported by author's references on Alan Rob-Grije, Rolan Bart and other ...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aristotle divides this genre into quantitative divisions: prologue, episode, exodus, and choral unit (which can also be divided into parts). ... The writer should indulge his/herself in the emotions he is writing and the gestures that follow those emotions. ... By watching any episode of the "Drew Carey Show,"" or "Paradise Island,"" or "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,"" or virtually anything, he would be left writing more instructions on how to write good drama, and maybe, just maybe, finessing his wardrobe, grooming, and cooking. ...

• Word Count: 1287
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During his lifetime, Jim Henson, director and creator of Labyrinth, was most famous for his additions to the genre of children's fiction. ... Sharp, multilayered storytelling - absurd, affectionate and socially concerned - uses everything from modern media genres to folklore, playing to an intelligent audience " (Pompe, 2001). ... Henson's main goal when writing this film was to show the natural progression of age and maturation of the main character, while projecting major life changes in a tasteful manner. ...

• Word Count: 2010
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate