### 날짜 : 2024-03-22 14:44 ### 주제 : Common Genres #스토리텔링 #공부 ---- # 4.1.2 Common Genres ### Fantasy - **Features**: Includes magical elements, supernatural creatures, and fantastical worlds. Often involves a struggle between good and evil, epic quests, and complex lore. - **World-Building**: The author's ability to build a rich, immersive world is paramount, complete with its own rules, races, geography, history, and systems of magic. - **Examples**: J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. ### Science Fiction - **Features**: Centers around advanced technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and often examines the impact of science on society. - **Themes**: Frequently touches on existential questions and explores philosophical themes like what it means to be human, the role of technology, and the future of civilization. - **Examples**: Isaac Asimov’s "Foundation" series, Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" ### Mystery - **Features**: Involves a mysterious event, often a crime, that requires investigation. Readers follow a protagonist who seeks to solve the puzzle. - **Structure**: Careful seeding of clues, red herrings, and suspects is integral to keep the reader guessing and engaged in solving the mystery. - **Examples**: Agatha Christie's "Hercule Poirot" series, Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories. ### Romance - **Features**: Focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people. The journey with emotional highs and lows leading to a satisfying and optimistic ending is key. - **Character Development**: The growth of characters in their ability to love and commit is central, resulting in strong character-driven narratives. - **Examples**: Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice," Nicholas Sparks' "The Notebook." ### Horror - **Features**: Designed to frighten and unsettle readers by exploring humanity’s fears, the unknown, and often includes supernatural elements. - **Atmosphere**: Plays heavily on creating a chilling, suspenseful, or shocking atmosphere. Uses tension-building and pacing masterfully to elicit fear. - **Examples**: Stephen King's "It," H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. ### Historical Fiction - **Features**: Set in the past, this genre pays close attention to period detail and tries to convey the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a bygone era with realistic details. - **Research**: Authors typically invest significant time in research to authentically represent the period. - **Examples**: Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth," Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall." ### Young Adult (YA) - **Features**: Contains protagonists who are typically in their teenage years, dealing with challenges from coming-of-age to battling societal issues or supernatural foes. - **Themes**: Often involves themes of identity, independence, first loves, and finding one's place in the world. - **Examples**: Suzanne Collins’ "The Hunger Games," John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars." ### New Adult (NA) - **Features**: Focuses on characters in their 20s as they explore new adulthood freedoms and responsibilities; often combines the self-discovery theme of YA with more adult themes. - **Themes**: Typically includes real-life issues such as leaving home, beginning a career, and navigating personal relationships. - **Examples**: Colleen Hoover's "Slammed," Jamie McGuire’s "Beautiful Disaster." When crafting a story within a specific genre, understanding its conventions is critical, but breaking them with innovation can lead to refreshing and compelling narratives. Moreover, genre blending has become more common, where writers mix elements of different genres to create hybrid stories, such as a romantic science fiction or a historical mystery. This can offer readers a familiar framework with an original twist, generating broad appeal and potentially drawing in fans from each blended genre. --- # Genres in Medicine When discussing genres within the realm of medicine, it's essential to recognize that we're moving away from traditional literary genres and toward formats and approaches unique to medical communication and education. Some of these include: ### Medical Textbooks - **Features**: Educational content meant for medical students and professionals; includes detailed descriptions, diagrams, and explanations of medical conditions and treatments. - **Example:** "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine" ### Case Reports and Case Series - **Features**: Detailed presentations of a single patient (case report) or a series of patients (case series) showcasing unique or noteworthy clinical presentations, diagnoses, or treatments. - **Example:** The New England Journal of Medicine Case Reports ### Review Articles - **Features**: Summations of existing literature on a particular topic in medicine, giving an overview of current knowledge and potential directions for future research. - **Example:** Annual Review of Medicine ### Clinical Practice Guidelines - **Features**: Systematically developed and evidence-based recommendations intended to assist practitioners and patients in making decisions about appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances. - **Example:** American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines on the management of heart conditions ### Medical Journals - **Features**: Periodical publications about medical theories, research, and case studies directed at medical professionals. - **Example:** The Lancet, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) ### Patient Education Materials - **Features**: Information designed to inform patients about their conditions, treatments, and healthcare maintenance in layman's terms. - **Example:** Brochures or booklets on managing diabetes, provided by healthcare organizations or doctor's offices ### Health and Wellness Blogs - **Features**: Informal and often more personal articles focused on health tips, medical news, disease prevention, and healthy lifestyle practices. - **Example:** Mayo Clinic’s health blog ### Narrative Medicine - **Features**: Incorporates narratives or storytelling in medical practice to improve the patient-caregiver relationship and help care providers better understand and address patient needs. - **Example:** "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman ### Medical Humanities - **Features**: An interdisciplinary field where methods from humanities and social sciences are utilized to analyze, understand, and explain aspects of medicine and healthcare. - **Example:** Literature, essays, and art that delve into the human side of practicing medicine ### Biomedical Research Articles - **Features**: Scholarly articles reporting the methodology and results from original research conducted in the field of medicine and biology. - **Example:** Articles published in BioMed Central journals ### Medical Ethics Essays - **Features**: Discussions of moral principles and concerns in clinical practice and medical research, often highlighting dilemmas and proposing ethical frameworks for decision-making. - **Example:** "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot (though this is a full book, it delves deeply into ethics) ### Medical Thrillers (Fiction) - **Features**: Novels that integrate medical science with the thriller genre, often involving conspiracies, epidemics, and biotechnology hazards. - **Example:** "Coma" by Robin Cook Genres within medicine serve different purposes, responding to diverse audiences, including healthcare professionals, researchers, students, and patients. An in-depth understanding of these genres and their respective conventions is crucial for anyone involved in the creation, dissemination, or consumption of medical knowledge and narratives.