Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 20:38:28 -0700 From: hixon Subject: TECH: Weltanschauung While not everyone on this list is a writer of fiction, as it seems most are poets, everyone who writes anything that isn't reference, true crime, biographies, or other non-fiction, has to have a feel for the various human weltanschauung (world views) in order to express anything beyond their own personal experience. Have an exercise to offer. Taking the genres with their subclasses listed below, give in ONE TO THREE DECLARATIVE sentences the distinctive weltanschauung of each one. It isn't necessary to be able to put a response to every one. You will not be graded. Just respond to those you actually have an idea of what makes that defination what it is. For instance what is distinctive about Terry Pratchett's Disc World series that sets it aside from Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest series? Both are fantasies. Both are funny. Yet Pratchett's books are considered Comic Fantasy and Wrede's books are considered Light Fantasy. What is the definative difference between the two types of fantasy? No more than three short sentences please. These are not essay questions. I Mysteries A Cozy B Police Procedure C "Mean Streets" P.I. or Otherwise D Private Eye E Suspense F Thriller II Science Fiction A Soft Science Fiction B Hard Science Fiction C Science Fantasy (For those who don't believe such a group can exist consider Margaret Ball's "Mathemagics") D Science Mystery III Fantasy A High Fantasy B Heroic Fantasy C Comic Fantasy D Light Fantasy E Dark Fantasy (aka Horror) F Fantasy Mystery G Ghost Stories IV Romance A Gothic Romance B Modern Romance C Western Romance D Regency Romance V Mainstream A Modern Problems B Mainstream From The Past (aka Classics) C Comedy Of Manners D Drama E Tragedy VI Other?