Monthly List 16 LCSH (September 14, 2015)

Atellanae [gp2014026228]

UF Fabulae Atellanae

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for farcical, bawdy pantomimes from Ancient Rome in which stock characters were represented by masks.

Comedy sketches [gp2014026265]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for short comedic scenes or vignettes.

Commendatory poetry [gp2014026268]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems that generally appear in the preliminaries of books and praise the author and/or the work. DELETE FIELD

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems that generally appear in the preliminaries of books and praise the author and/or the work. Poems that praise a person, place, event, or thing are entered under Laudatory poetry. ADD FIELD

Note under Laudatory poetry ADD FIELD

Concrete poetry [gp2014026270]

BT Experimental poetry

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems in which graphic effects created by typography replace the use of conventional verse forms, so that the typographical arrangement of text is integral to the experience and meaning of the work. Poems that are arranged to form a recognizable shape that generally illustrates the poem's theme are entered under Pattern poetry.

Note under Pattern poetry

Decimas [gp2014026277]

UF Décimas espinelas

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Spanish poems consisting of ten lines of eight syllables.

Discussion plays [gp2014026290]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays in which debate and discussion on social problems are more important than plot, action, or character.

Epicedia [gp2014026311]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems composed for funerals.

Flash fiction [gp2014026543]

UF Short-short stories

UF Very short fiction

Lanternes [gp2014026402]

UF Lanterns (Poetry)

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems consisting of five unrhymed lines of one, two, three, four, and one syllables that form the shape of a Japanese lantern.

Laudatory poetry [gp2014026403]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems that praise a person, place, event, or thing. Poems that generally appear in the preliminaries of books and praise the author and/or work are entered under Commendatory poetry.

Note under Commendatory poetry

Limericks [gp2014026412]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for humorous poems consisting of five lines with an aabba rhyme scheme, the third and fourth lines having two stresses and the others three.

Linked verse [gp2014026413]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poetry in which multiple authors take turns composing lines or stanzas.

Liras [gp2014026414]

UF Estrofas de Fray Luis de León

UF Fray Luis de León estrofas

UF Liras de Fray Luis de León

UF Liras garcilasianas

UF Luis de León quintillas

UF Quintillas de Luis de León

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Spanish poems with five-line stanzas consisting of lines of seven and eleven syllables and the rhyme scheme ababb.

Living newspapers [gp2014026417]

UF Newspapers, Living

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays that dramatize current social and political issues, and are often intended as propoganda.

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for short Spanish plays that are presented before longer plays in order to set the mood and capture the interest of the audience.

Love poetry [gp2014026419]

Lü shi [gp2014026420]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Chinese poems composed in the 7th-10th centuries that consist of eight lines of five, six, or seven syllables that display strict tonal patterns.

Macaronic verse [gp2014026423]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poetry that mixes two or more languages.

Magic realist fiction [gp2014026424]

UF Magic realism (Fiction)

UF Magical realism (Fiction)

UF Magical realist fiction

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for modern fiction in which fantastic or mythical elements are included in a narrative that is otherwise realistic.

Maqāmāt [gp2014026425]

RT Picaresque fiction

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for medieval Arabic rhymed prose that was imitated in other semitic languages and Persian, and which generally featured picaresque themes.

Marsiyas [gp2014026426]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Urdu elegies that generally honor the martyring of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Ḥusayn and his kinsmen in the 7th century Battle of Karbala.

Masnavis [gp2014026427]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Persian, Turkish, and Arabic poems written in rhyming couplets.

Medical drama [gp2014026429]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays that feature medical personnel and the practice of medicine.

Medical fiction [gp2014026430]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for fiction that features medical personnel and the practice of medicine.

Melic poetry [gp2014026431]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for classical Greek lyric poetry that was intended to be sung to a musical accompaniment.

Melodramas (Drama) [gp2014026432]

UF Melodramatic plays

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays that emphasize plot, action, and exaggerated emotion at the expense of characterization.

Memorates [gp2014026433]

RT Personal narratives

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for first-person narratives that describe an encounter with a supernatural being or paranormal event.

Metadramas [gp2014026434]

UF Drama about drama

UF Metadramatic plays

UF Metadramatic theater

UF Metatheatrical drama

UF Plays within plays

UF Plays within the play

UF Self-reflexive drama

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for drama that self-consciously calls attention to its own fictional status as a theatrical pretence, often through the use of a play-within-a-play.

Missionary plays [gp2014026436]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays that promote the goals of religious missions.

Mock-heroic drama [gp2014026437]

BT Satirical literature

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for drama that satirically treats a trivial subject in a grand style.

Mock-heroic poetry [gp2014026438]

BT Satirical literature

This heading is used as a genre-form heading for satirical poems that adapt the heroic style of epic poetry to trivial subject in a grand style.

Monodramas [gp2014026439]

Monostichs [gp2014026441]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems consisting of a single line.

Morality plays [gp2014026442]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for late medieval allegorical plays that teach moral lessons by depicting the battle between good and evil in the human soul.

Muʻāraḍāt [gp2014026443]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Arabic and Persian poems that deliberately imitate the themes and versification of a famous poem.

Mummers' plays [gp2014026444]

UF Johnny Jacks' plays

UF Jolly Boys' plays

UF Pace-egging plays

UF Tipteerers' plays

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for English folk plays that usually have a central theme of death and resurrection.

Muwashshaḥāt [gp2014026445]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Arabic poems consisting of five to seven strophes that are each divided into two parts following differing rhyme patterns.

Mystery and miracle plays [gp2014026446]

UF Bible-histories (Drama)

UF Mysteries (Religious drama)

UF Mystery and miracle drama

UF Pageants (Mystery and miracle plays)

UF Rappresentazioni sacre

UF Sacre rappresentazioni

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for medieval religious plays that present biblical stories or stories of miracles performed by saints.

Mythological plays [gp2014026447]

UF Mythological drama

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays based on mythological themes.

Nautical drama [gp2014026449]

UF Jack Tar melodramas

UF Nautical melodramas

BT Melodramas (Drama)

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for 18th and 19th century melodramas that featured a heroic British sailor confronting villains at sea or on land.

Nō plays [gp2014026450]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for highly ritualized Japanese plays incorporating music, dance, and poetry.

Noir comics [gp2014026451]

UF Crime noir comics

BT Detective and mystery comics

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for comics about crime and detection that feature violence and treachery and a lack of distinction between criminals and heroes.

Noir fiction [gp2014026452]

UF Crime noir fiction

BT Detective and mystery fiction

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for fiction that features violence and treachery and a lack of distinction between criminals and heroes.

Nonfiction novels [gp2014026454]

UF Documentary fiction

UF Faction (Nonfiction novels)

UF Journalistic novels

UF Non-fiction novels

BT Creative nonfiction

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for works that intentionally blend verifiably factual journalistic research with fictional elements.

Novels of manners [gp2014026458]

UF Manners, Novels of

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for realistic fiction that describes in detail the customs, habits, values, and expectations of a particular society.

Occasional verse [gp2014026460]

UF Epideictic poetry ADD FIELD

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for highly formal, ceremonious, and complex lyric poems that display strong feeling.

One-act plays [gp2014026462]

Pageants [gp2014026464]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for the texts of tableaux, songs, dances, and dramatic scenes that commemorate historical events or traditions.

Palinodes [gp2014026465]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems in which the poet renounces or retracts a sentiment expressed in an earlier poem.

Pantoums [gp2014026466]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next.

Paranormal comics [gp2014026468]

UF Supernatural comics

UF Supernaturalist comics

BT Comics (Graphic works)

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for comics that feature human characters that are often involved with the occult, witchcraft, spiritualism, psychic phenomena, vodou, etc., and interact with supernatural beings.

Participatory drama [gp2014026471]

UF Participation drama

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays structured to include active involvement by audience members.

Passion plays [gp2014026472]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays that present the trial, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Pastoral drama [gp2014026473]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays with rural settings that idealize rustic, rural, or small-town life.

Pastoral elegies [gp2014026474]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for elegies that combine pastoral themes and images with a memorialization of a deceased person.

Pastoral fiction [gp2014026475]

UF Pastoral romances

UF Romances, Pastoral

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for fiction with rural settings that idealize rustic, rural, or small-town life.

Pastoral poetry [gp2014026476]

UF Idylls (Pastoral poetry)

UF Idyls (Pastoral poetry)

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for short poems that idealize rural life.

Pastourelles [gp2014026477]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Old French lyric poems about the courting of a shepherdess by a noble suitor.

Pattern poetry [gp2014026478]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for poems that are arranged to form a recognizable or meaningful shape that usually illustrates the poem's theme. Poems in which graphic effects created by typography replace the conventional verse forms so that the typographical arrangement of text is central to the experience and meaning of the work are entered under Concrete poetry.

Note under Concrete poetry

Personal narratives [gp2014026142]

RT Memorates ADD FIELD

Picaresque fiction [gp2014026479]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for fiction that consists of episodic narratives that describe the adventures of a resourceful rogue.

Ping shu [gp2014026480]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for Chinese oral storytelling that is presented by a single performer in local dialect, often with added commentary.

Political fiction [gp2014026482]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for fiction that features the political milieu.

Priamels [gp2014026486]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for medieval German epigrammatic poems that consist of a series of seemingly unrelated, often paradoxical statements cleverly brought together at the end.

Problem plays [gp2014026487]

UF Social problem drama

UF Social problem plays

UF Social thesis drama

UF Social thesis plays

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for plays that dramatize contemporary social problems and are intended to change public opinion.

Prose poems [gp2014026488]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for prose that utilizes poetic techniques to emphasize sound, imagery, and figurative language.

Psychological fiction [gp2014026492]

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for fiction in which the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters are of equal or greater interest than the external action of the narrative.

Puppet plays [gp2014026493]

Purim plays [gp2014026494]