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1079388 No.1079388 [Reply] [Original]

I'm looking for obsolete literary genres. Ones that aren't written anymore without the author consciously resurrecting them.

Here's a partial list: fabilau, philosophical dialogue, saga, Western, epistolary novel, sermon, apocalypse, hagiography, dream story, epics, chivalric romances. What others can /tg/ think of?

>> No.1079400

I don't know about genre, but you don't see the cut-up technique that William S. Burroughs pioneered.

>> No.1079418

I don't know, you'd really have to ask /tg/.

>> No.1079428

cold-war technothriller

>> No.1079437

Augustan poetry.

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1079443

now i have something to write

>> No.1079459

people still write westerns

>> No.1079910

fairy tale
fable
parable
myth

>> No.1079921

Sentimental novels. Where the heroines faint every occasion they get.

>> No.1079926

i faint because of heroin on many occasion

>> No.1079934

>>1079926

I faint because of herons quite often.

>> No.1079939

>>1079921

obviously you have never heard of Mills & Boon

>> No.1079944

I paint horses on herons quite often

>> No.1079957

>>1079921
Funny story, I just read Castle of Otranto. It's considered the first 18th century Gothic novel I guess. It was just full of italian princesses swooning, romance, and over-the-top emotions. At first I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek comedy, like Shakespeare's plays or something. Especially during the scene in the beginning where the lord of the castle starts to lust after his son's bride and she literally has to run from him.

So I was expecting it to get to the real shit before the end, like solving the mystery of the ghosts and the giant living suit of armor, but then the book suddenly ended. I take it was written quite seriously then.