Literary genre classification: myth, epic, fable, fairy tale, quoted poem, short story, novella, novel, tragedy, comedy, drama, lyric prose, essay, reportage, narrative, argumentative essay, etc.
The formation of literary genre
Literary genre refers to the specific style of literary works? It is one of the factors of literary form.
Literature is the product of a certain social life reflected in a writer's mind? Literary genre, as an element of literary form, is formed to meet the needs of certain social life in the final analysis.
The earliest genre in the literature of all nationalities in the world is poetry, followed by novels and drama literature.
It's just gradually developed.
This aspect is, of course, determined by the increasing enrichment and development of social life? On the other hand, it is inseparable from the writer's inheritance of the literary tradition of the previous generation, the accumulation of creative experience and the exertion of creativity. Novellas, novels, long plays and even film literature in history? Are gradually produced under such conditions. The literary styles developed after the May 4th Movement, such as free verse, drama and new novels, are the most obvious examples.
Classification of literary genres
There are two common classification rules in China since the May 4th Movement: one is "three points" and the other is "four points".
"Trigonometry" is to divide various literary genres into three categories according to the ways of creating images:
Narrative, lyric and drama.
Narrative refers to describing people through the description of events? A work that reflects reality and expresses the author's thoughts and feelings. Because the authors of such works are all narrated from the side? At the same time, it allows characters to show themselves without any restrictions. Therefore, its reflection on real life can reach a very extensive and sufficient degree. Such works include narrative poems, novels, fables and so on.
Lyricism refers to those works that reflect reality through the author's expression of some thoughts and feelings. In this kind of works, the author directly expresses his feelings about real life, love and hate, and reflects reality through it, infecting readers. This kind of works generally have no complete plot, and the length is often short. It includes lyric poetry and lyric prose.
Drama refers to those works that put characters on the stage and let them express their character through actions. It is not only different from lyricism, but also different from narration, and the two are not simply made up. It has its own characteristics. Because of this, it can exist independently. Such works include tragedies, comedies and plays.
Four categories: poetry, novels, essays and drama literature.
The advantages of "quartering" can be summarized as follows:
First, the division not only pays attention to the differences in image-building methods, but also pays attention to the differences in systems. More in line with the traditional habits of our country.
Secondly, the novel genre has developed rapidly since it came into being, especially since modern times, and it occupies a very important position in literary creation. It is in line with the actual situation to divide literary creation into a big category independently.
Thirdly, prose is a very flexible genre. China has a glorious tradition and rich heritage in the history of literary development. From the pre-Qin period to the May 4th period, many excellent works and great writers appeared in the field of prose.