Popular Genres and Their Uses in Fiction

Jadwiga Węgrodzka is Associate Professor of British Literature at the University of Gdańsk. She publishes on children’s literature, fantasy, science fiction, crime fiction, fairy tale, as well as poetry and British artistic fiction. She also edited volumes on fictional characters and literary canons.

• Romance – Fantasy – Science fiction – Dystopia – Thriller – What-if historical fiction – Genre mixture – Adaptation – Intertextuality – World models – Formula – Barbara Delinsky – Lilian Darcy – Jennifer Greene – Michel Faber – J.　L. Carrel – Michael Crichton – Ursula Le Guin – C.　S. Lewis – William Golding