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Steampunk is a genre of fiction that imagines alternative histories influenced by 19th century industrial steam-powered technology. It emphasizes detailed historical settings and explores how conventional history gets things wrong. Mystery fiction involves a victim, culprit, and detective solving a puzzle through clues to find the guilty party and restore order. Horror fiction explores the dark side of humanity through frightening and violent plots meant to create an immediate response in audiences.
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- 2. STEAMPUNK "Steampunk is a fiction that places a premium on minutely accurate historical detail, within flamboyantly wrong imagined pasts, in order to explore the ways in which the conventional historical sensibility sometimes gets it wrong." •Rose, Margaret. "Extraordinary Pasts: Steampunk as a Mode of Historical Representation." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 20.3 (2010): 319-33. Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. Steampunk is a movement with the goal of regaining a human connection with the machine world. •Onion, Rebecca. "Reclaiming the Machine: An Introductory Look at Steampunk in Everyday Practice." Neo- Victorian Studies 1.1 (2008): 138-63. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. <http:// www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/Autumn2008/NVS%201-1%20R-Onion.pdf>
- 3. MYSTERY "Detectives make sense of the senseless, expose hypocrisy and evil, bring justice and restore order, however temporarily, to a world somehow askew." - Rosenfeld, Shelle. “A Few Thoughts: Mysteries.” William C. Robinson Homepage. University of Tennessee Knoxville, n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. <http://web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/590_lec_myst.html> Mystery fiction has these common elements: •At its heart, the mystery story involves a victim, a culprit, and a detective •There is a dead body or crime •Some sort of puzzle must be solved in order to find the guilty •Suspects •Clues •Detective •Eventually, a solution •Order restored and justice served
- 4. HORROR "This predilection for art that promises we will be frightened by it, shaken by it, at times repulsed by it seems to be as deeply imprinted in the human psyche as the counter-impulse toward daylight, rationality, scientific skepticism, truth and the "real." - Oates, Joyce Carol. “A Few Thoughts on the Horror Genre.” William C. Robinson Homepage. University of Tennessee Knoxville, n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. http://web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/590_lec_horror.html Horror fiction has these common elements: •Explores the dark, malevolent side of humanity •Main characters are people we can understand and perhaps identify with although often these are haunted, estranged individuals •Mood is dark, foreboding, menacing, bleak and creates an immediate response by the audience •Plot contains frightening and unexpected incidents •Violence, often graphic, and may be accompanied by explicit sexuality
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