Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [genres in literature and performing arts]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication
4. Information Forms
5. information forms
6. document genres
7. documents by form
8. literature

Narrower term/s

• commentaries
• dialogues[+]
  • imaginary conversations
• essays
• histories (literary genre)[+]
  • case histories
  • chronicles
  • genealogies (histories) [+]
    • genealogical tables
    • pedigrees
  • annals (histories, without comment)
  • local histories
  • prosopographies [NP]
• prayers (literary genre)[+]
  • litanies (prayers)
  • collects (prayers)
  • house blessings
  • vesting prayers
  • apostolic blessings
• reminiscences
• treatises
• tracts (literary genre)
• fables
• folk tales[+]
  • legends (literary genre)
  • trickster tales
• mythology (literary genre)[+]
  • myths
• monographs
• biographies (literary genre)[+]
  • autobiographies (literary genre)
  • collective biographies
  • hagiographies (literary genre) [+]
    • libelli
  • prosopographies [NP]
  • vitas (biographies)
  • biographical sketches
• parables
• narratives (literary works)[+]
  • conversion narratives
  • personal narratives
• fairy tales
• proverbs
• romances (medieval narratives)
• comedies (literary genre)
• tragedies
• allegories (literary genre)
• epigrams
• memoirs
• novellas
• novels[+]
  • Gothic novels
  • bildungsromans
  • penny dreadfuls
  • yellowbacks
  • epistolary novels
• nursery rhymes
• oral histories (literary genre)
• short stories
• midrash
• satires (literary genre)
• prose poems
• polemics
• aphorisms
• utopian literature
• adventure stories[+]
  • Robinsonades
  • adventure story comics [NP]
• animal stories
• burlesques (literary genre)
• travel literature[+]
  • travel guidebooks [NP]
  • travelogue storybooks
  • travelers’ writings
• western (literary genre)
• ghost stories
• cautionary tales
• sea stories
• school stories
• Bible stories
• children's literature[+]
  • comics (documents) [NP] [+]
    • [comics by form] [+]
      • comic books [+]
      • comic strips
      • fotonovelas
      • Tijuana bibles
      • graphic novels [+]
      • webcomics
    • [comics by subject type] [+]
      • horror comics
      • sword and sorcery comics
      • superhero comics
      • adventure story comics
      • underground comics
      • alternative comics
    • balloons (partial documents) [NP]
  • picture books [NP] [+]
    • toy books
    • stories without words
  • coloring books [NP]
  • fairy tales [NP]
  • alphabet books [NP]
  • nursery rhymes [NP]
  • adventure stories [NP] [+]
    • Robinsonades
    • adventure story comics [NP]
  • animal stories [NP]
  • school stories [NP]
  • bath books [NP]
  • bumper books [NP]
  • Bible stories [NP]
  • jigsaw books [NP]
  • travelogue storybooks [NP]
  • sticker books [NP]
  • children's stories
  • children's plays
  • children's poetry
• prosopographies
• sayings (literary genre)
• maxims
• opuscules
• Christmas stories
• letters to the editor
• benedictions (literary genre)
• jokes
• fantasies (literary genre)[+]
  • fantasy fiction [NP]
• passions (literary genre)
• jātakas
• epic literature
• visionary literature (dream literature)
• bianwen
• sutras
• gospels
• epistles
• instructional literature (moral guidance works)[+]
  • morality plays [NP]
• logia (literary genre)
• kavya
• origins stories (literary genre)
• truisms
• drama (literary genre)[+]
  • verse drama
• literature (general genre)
• [poetry and poems][+]
  • poems [+]
    • [poems by form] [+]
      • concrete poems
      • pattern poems
      • sonnets
      • sestinas
      • tankas (poems)
      • quatrains
      • terza rima
      • narrative poems [+]
      • couplets
      • mahakavyas
      • epyllia
    • [poems by function] [+]
      • elegies
      • odes
      • occasional poems
      • limericks
      • epithalamia
      • humorous poetry
      • literary calaveras
  • poetry [+]
    • visual poetry [+]
      • concrete poetry [+]
      • pattern poetry
      • picture poetry
    • sound poetry
    • șehrengiz
    • narrative poetry
    • epic poetry
    • zaum poetry
    • lyric poetry
    • epithalamic poetry
    • laudatory poetry
    • religious poetry
    • Latin poetry
• stories in rhyme
• erotic stories
• mock heroic literature
• botanical literature
• stories (literature genre)
• anecdotes
• natural history literature[+]
  • nature stories
• literary forgeries
• popular literature[+]
  • cordel literature
• religious literature (genre)
• plays (literary genre)
• ballads (literary genre)

Anotations

Scope note:

Genres for works that are ultimately intended to appear as texts or other information forms.