baggiesfan Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 But what exactly is contemporary fiction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/contemporary?view=uk Guess the fiction bit speaks for itself really. It will be anything that doesn't fit into the other categories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Yup, fiction that is written in the time in which its set. Jane Austen's novels could actually be classed as such because she set them at the time of writing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggiesfan Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 So if the new Stephen King book is set at the time it was written does that mean it could be classed as comtemporaryfiction? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 We haven't actually attempted to classify books.. We did the main ones, then realised that there was a large selection of books that didn't particularly fit into them, so this was the simplest way to do it. It's actually one of the reasons that I didn't split books into categories until fairly recently, as they can be hard to classify properly. However, a lot of people seemed to want it, so we did the best we could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggiesfan Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Michelle i'm not trying to belittle the site in any way it is a genuine question i'm asking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I'm just trying to say that there's probably not a very good answer as to what the genre actually is, but rather it was a term that aided us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I'd assumed it was everything that didn't fit into any of the other categories! I would expect to find everything here that you'd find in the main fiction section of a book shop, so basically not crime, horror, sci-fi, classics or childrens which is pretty much what the other categories we have on the main board. I noticed in Waterstone's today that they've also got a separate section for "Modern Women's Literature" (or something like that!) which is basically the romance/chick-lit type books, which we've got a separate sub-board in this section as well, so they've obviously been picking up ideas from this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Yup, fiction that is written in the time in which its set. Jane Austen's novels could actually be classed as such because she set them at the time of writing... I always thought of CF as being books written in recent (after WW2) years that was not classified by any other genre title. I suppose that absolute definitions of genres don't interest me as such when I am chossing a book to read outside of my Crime & Thriller comfort zone! Boy, you really do learn something new every day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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