10 Examples of Literary Hybrids

The literary hybrids are texts in which two or more literary genres, two literary subgenres or a literary text are mixed with another type of text, with another type of art or with digital productions. For instance: The literary chronicle is a literary hybrid because it belongs to the genre of literary narrative, but it is mixed with another type of text, the journalistic one.

Literary hybrids have existed since Greco-Roman antiquity, but they developed with greater intensity in the last century, especially since the historical avant-gardes.

The central objective of a literary hybrid is to create a work that remains literary or that preserves some of this type of text, but that has elements of other genres.

Literary hybrids can be:

Hybrids of literary genres

The literary genres They are a set of categories that establish the content and structure of a work. There are three main genres:

Hybrids of literary subgenres

The literary subgenres are the different approaches that each of the three great genres allows. For example, a narrative genre text may belong to the fantastic, realistic, science fiction, horror, and wonderful subgenre, among others. A text of lyrical genre can belong to the subgenre of epic, sonnet, etc. And a text of the dramatic genre can belong to the subgenre of tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, etc.

Each of these genres has rules and characteristics regarding content, form, and theme.

Hybrids of literary subgenres are those that mix two or more subgenres. For instance: Some novels by the writer César Aira begin as realistic, but suddenly change to the fantasy genre.

Hybrids of literary texts and other types of texts

Literary texts can be mixed with other types of text. Some of these combinations are:

Hybrids of literary texts and other types of art

One of the most experimental facets of literature is one that mixes elements of literature with elements of other arts, such as painting and dance. Some of these hybrids are:

Hybrids of literary texts and digital productions

The hybrids formed by literary texts and digital productions are generally novels, stories or poetry that use procedures related to digital. These texts are found on websites or on digital platforms. Some are:

Examples of literary hybrids

1. The novel Artificial respiration (by Ricardo Piglia) is a literary hybrid that mixes the novel with literary theory.
2. The poem “A Margarita Debayle” (by Rubén Darío) is a literary hybrid in which the poetic genre is mixed with the narrative.
3. The novel Maria (by Jorge Isaacs) is a literary hybrid in which different genres and literary subgenres are mixed: the novel, letters, poems and essays.
4. The novel It won't be the earth (by Jorge Volpi) is a literary hybrid in which different types of texts are mixed: the essay, the autobiography, the fictional novel and the serial.
5. "Dyr bul shchyl" (from Kruchenykh) is a literary hybrid because it is a sound poetry, in which words have no meaning and only the sound they produce matters.
   Dyr bul shchyl
   ubeshshchur
   skum
   vy so bu
   r l ez
6. Movements (by Henry Michaux) is a set of poetry in which there are no words, but pictures that represent movements.
7. "A hit of the dice will never abolish chance" (by Stéphane Mallarmé) is a literary hybrid that combines poetry, drawing and sounds.
8. Peaceful entertainment dialogues (by Gaspar Lucas Hidalgo) is a miscellany in which anecdotes, stories and legends are combined in a dialogue between characters.
9. The floating book (by Leonardo Valencia and Eugenio Tisselli) is a hyperfiction novel in which readers can add paragraphs to the story as they read.
10. Mequinenza trenches (by Félix Remírez) is a hyperliterature novel in which links to images and texts appear.

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