Typology of Literary Formula
Adventure
The adventure novel is a literary genre that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction (Wikipedia). The central fantasy of the adventure story is that the hero overcoming obstacles and danger and accomplishing some important and moral mission. The focus of this formula is the hero and the natures overcome the obstacles. Two types of this formula is “superhero” (involves the ties of identification between hero and audience) and “Ordinary” (grown up adventure story).
Romance
There is a wide market for the formula which combine adventure, love story, and some exotic background in the pas faraway places. The feminine equivalent of the adventure story is the romance. Usually romance has the female central characteristics but most adventure has male protagonist. The common formula of the Romance is the development of a love rlationship between man and woman. The Cinderella formula is the most well known in romance pattern in which the power of love bring happiness to the poor and common girl. The most popular present today formula is “gothic romance” or “ contemporary gothic”
Mystery
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. When the main character is a likable detective, the mystery is suspenseful. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved. The fundamental principle of the mystery story is the investigation and discovery of hidden secrets. Mystery also involves the isolation clue.
Melodrama
Melodrama is like farce that it has little regard for attention to human values. It can be combine between drama and music but as time went gone the music disappeared. Sometimes it presented with the exagerated humor, unusual thing that happen fast and mysteriously. The type of melodramahas at its center the moral fantasy of showing forth the essential “rightness” of the world order. Some of popular pattern is tragedy and evil, benevolent and right. Although it was suferring of the good shows the hand of God work.
Alien Beings or States
The strangest of formulaic types consists of storis dealing with alien being and sates. The most popular formula is the horror story about the destruction of some monsters. The key characteristics of this type is the representation of some alien being or state and the underlying moral fantasy is our dream that the unknowable can be known and related to in some meaningful fashion. The evoking fear become the entertaining when we understand and also can relate them.
Reference : Cawelti (Adventure, Mystery and Romance: Formula stories as Art and popular Culture)
Adventure
The adventure novel is a literary genre that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction (Wikipedia). The central fantasy of the adventure story is that the hero overcoming obstacles and danger and accomplishing some important and moral mission. The focus of this formula is the hero and the natures overcome the obstacles. Two types of this formula is “superhero” (involves the ties of identification between hero and audience) and “Ordinary” (grown up adventure story).
Romance
There is a wide market for the formula which combine adventure, love story, and some exotic background in the pas faraway places. The feminine equivalent of the adventure story is the romance. Usually romance has the female central characteristics but most adventure has male protagonist. The common formula of the Romance is the development of a love rlationship between man and woman. The Cinderella formula is the most well known in romance pattern in which the power of love bring happiness to the poor and common girl. The most popular present today formula is “gothic romance” or “ contemporary gothic”
Mystery
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. When the main character is a likable detective, the mystery is suspenseful. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved. The fundamental principle of the mystery story is the investigation and discovery of hidden secrets. Mystery also involves the isolation clue.
Melodrama
Melodrama is like farce that it has little regard for attention to human values. It can be combine between drama and music but as time went gone the music disappeared. Sometimes it presented with the exagerated humor, unusual thing that happen fast and mysteriously. The type of melodramahas at its center the moral fantasy of showing forth the essential “rightness” of the world order. Some of popular pattern is tragedy and evil, benevolent and right. Although it was suferring of the good shows the hand of God work.
Alien Beings or States
The strangest of formulaic types consists of storis dealing with alien being and sates. The most popular formula is the horror story about the destruction of some monsters. The key characteristics of this type is the representation of some alien being or state and the underlying moral fantasy is our dream that the unknowable can be known and related to in some meaningful fashion. The evoking fear become the entertaining when we understand and also can relate them.
Reference : Cawelti (Adventure, Mystery and Romance: Formula stories as Art and popular Culture)
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