| 1) Genre subtype, descriptive terms |
2) Author’s intention (I), purpose (P), methods (M) |
3) Reading mode (RM). Reading purpose (RP) |
4) Example of text (from books by P.Ackroyd) |
| Fiction, aesthetic text objective |
| Biographical novel, historical novel, ‘quasi-biography’ (Dubkova, 2015). |
I: creative fiction;P: aesthetic impression, imagery, emotional engagement; M: Creative literary devices. |
RM: fictional narrative, mystification (about real persons, objects), (in historic decorations)RP: entertainment, emotional involvement. |
HawksmoorThe Plato Papers |
| Fictional autobiography, ‘alternative biography’(Galahova, 2016), ‘geo-biography’ (Dubkova, 2015). |
I: creative fiction;P: aesthetic impression, imagery, emotional engagement;M: Creative literary devices + biographical material reestablished to reach the aesthetic aims. |
RM: fictional narrative, emotional illusion of true narration, verisimilitude;RP: emotional experience, involvement, creative reinterpretation of factual information. |
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde London: The Biography(‘city as humanlike character’ (Bogatikova, 2017)) |
| Fictional (creative) biography, ‘geo-biography’, ‘historiographic metaliterature’ (Hutcheon, 1988). |
I: metafiction, parafiction, imaginative writing;P: comprehensible, plain language but fascinating, thrilling narration about real facts;M: easy-reading literary devices + facts reestablished to form a self-consistent, convincing story. |
RM: fictional narrative, where emotional interpretation dominates over factual information;RP: edutainment. |
Thames: Sacred River |
| Presumable border for quantitative predominance of fictional (up) / nonfictional (down) characteristics |
| Reconstruction narrative, recreation narrative; docudrama, docufiction. |
I: Essay writing, opinion journalism;P: true to fact narration, creative adaptation of facts;M: chronological order, commenting, fact patterning (posterization), facts processing, spectrum bias. |
RM: based on real events narrative; opinion interpretation of factual information;RP: accessible information, information knowledge; can be used as reference in non-academic discourse. |
Shakespeare: The Biography |
| Fake fiction, fake news, false narrative, mockumentary, opinion based information. |
I: intended, conscious misinformation, disinformation, propaganda;P: believable presentation of false / distorted information, illusion of authenticity;M: procession of facts, prepossession, fudge facts + academic / journalist style text devices to reach verisimilitude. |
RM: As believable information, the misinformation mode appears when the reader believes, that the information is complete and objective, while it is intentionally biased/false.RP: Information, objective knowledge. The result of reading are cognitive aberration, misapprehensions. |
Cases of reader’s misinterpretation of Ackroyd’s fictional books as nonfictional.E.g. London:The Biography read as a guidebook (wrong due to the volume of the book, impossible to read on foot) |
| Popular-science literature, semipopular literature;‘criticism and biography study (essay)’ (Demchenko, 2014). |
I: Journalism, academic research adapted for mass reader;P: general information, education;M: essay, explanatory mode of academic style, chronological order, literary devices are subordinate to provision of information. |
RM: credible, verifiable information source;RP: education, objective knowledge, can be used as reference in school education discourse. |
Ackroyd's Brief Lives The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures |
| Academic biography, annals, chronicle, ‘creative biography reference book’ (Demchenko, 2014). |
I: Academic methodology based biography; P: Objective research, complete, credible, verifiable description;M: facts are organized according to their internal (objective) relations; scientific methods, academic writing. |
RM: source of credible, true information;RP: education, objective knowledge, can be used for reference in academic discourse. |
Ezra Pound and his WorldBlake |
| Nonfiction, information text objective |
