Dear all I thought of doing a scholarly piece  ( ;-) ) on books and literature. Here it goes. You tell me if it was a success.

BOOKS

The Origin of the Word

The word comes from Old English "bōc" which (itself) comes from the Germanic root "*bōk-", cognate to beech.  Similarly, in Slavic languages (for example, Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) "буква" (bukva—"letter") is cognate with "beech". In Russian and in Serbian and Macedonian, another Slavic languages, the words "букварь" (bukvar') and "буквар" (bukvar), respectively, refer specifically to a primary school textbook that helps young children master the techniques of reading and writing. It is thus conjectured that the earliest Indo-European writings may have been carved on beech wood.  Similarly, the Latin word codex, meaning a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant "block of wood".

Categories of Books

Books can be classified according to their contents and the by the format, method of manufacture, or appearance of the book. Genre refers to the content of the writing in the book. And types of books are defined by the format, method of manufacture etc.

Literature

Major Forms of literature are,

·         Novel · A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.

·         Poem · Poetry is a form of literary art which uses aesthetic and rhythmic[1][2][3] qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

·         Drama – A drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance

·         Short story · A short story is a brief work of literature, usually written in narrative prose.

·         Novella - A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.

Genres,

·         Comedy · in the contemporary meaning of the term, is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy.

·         Drama · Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance (As described above.)

·         Epic – A Epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

·         Erotic · Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to or are intended to arouse the reader sexually.

·         Nonsense · Literary nonsense (or nonsense literature) is a broad categorization of literature that uses sensical and nonsensical elements to defy language conventions or logical reasoning.

·         Lyric - Lyric poems typically express personal or emotional feelings and is traditionally the home of the present tense.

·         Mythopoeia · Mythopoeia is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where a fictional mythology is created by the writer of prose or other fiction.

·         Romance · As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

·         Satire - Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, and society itself, into improvement

·         Tragedy · is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing

·         Tragicomedy - is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.