Collocations withfiction

These are words often used in combination withfiction.

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adult fiction
Another thing is that they are now asked to buy books for various categories: adult non-fiction, reference books, adult fiction, children's books and foreign books.
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contemporary fiction
Innumerable periodical and official reports and even contemporary fiction suggest that antagonism and conflict were at the centre of the relationship between both groups.
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crime fiction
His main interest was horror film, although his work included short story and true crime fiction.
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detective fiction
As readers of detective fiction, however, we are potentially much less prone to such existential and hermeneutic anxieties.
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dystopian fiction
She was also a forward-thinking and imaginative person, harboring an interest in horror, science fiction, alternate history, and dystopian fiction.
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fan fiction
The rise of online repositories built to archive and deliver fan fiction has resulted in a new activity: fandom analytics.
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gothic fiction
The book is structured to alternate between gothic fiction and racial and imperial discourse.
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historical fiction
The genre of 'historical fiction' is an oxymoron to begin with.
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interactive fiction
She has spent much of the past decade researching hypertext fiction and interactive fiction.
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juvenile fiction
With their help, he greatly contributed to a new genre of juvenile fiction.
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legal fiction
But, as such, most of the critical instances can be assimilated only by something close to a legal fiction.
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literary fiction
Using two works of literary fiction and one movie, the author shows that the manipulation of temporality can become a tool for the expression of a variety of meanings.
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modern fiction
Quality modern fiction is read by about 4% of the population and, of the serious reading done, the 'classics' account for only 11% of the works read.
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piece of fiction
To the best of my knowledge that is a piece of fiction.
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popular fiction
That many liminal frontier figures existed during these years, providing inspiration for the writers of popular fiction, there can be no question.
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prose fiction
Second, by analyzing data from prose fiction, he showed that this usage was misrepresented or ignored by traditional grammarians.
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published fiction
The majority of her published fiction is written in the genres of historical crime fiction and noir.
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pure fiction
But that would have to be pure fiction.
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realistic fiction
It would seem, then, that this quantitative difference has in fact made the modernist novel qualitatively - perhaps even generically, as suggested above - different from nineteenth-century realistic fiction.
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romantic fiction
The result looks like an impressive scholarly work, but in fact much of it is romantic fiction.
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science fiction fandom
Specific sub-groups of science fiction fandom are often known by a collection term.
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short fiction
Short fiction provided her with a medium in which to explore the intersections between form and content.
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speculative fiction
Such an attempt to chart the development of the prophetic and ultimately creative literary genre of speculative fiction proves at times to be highly convincing.
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supernatural fiction
In her supernatural fiction, however, the castrato's ambiguity and the disruptive quality of his song become a source of power.
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work of fiction
If a religion is not truth-oriented, then it is like a work of fiction in that respect.
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works of fiction
One hundred works of fiction, drama and poetry are planned for publication in the series over the next two years.
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young-adult fiction
She is currently working on her first young-adult fiction novel.
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