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| - | :''[[library and information science]]'' | + | A '''periodical publication''', or just '''periodical''', is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the [[newspaper]], often published daily, or weekly; or the [[magazine]], typically published weekly, monthly or as a quarterly. Other examples would be a [[newsletter]], a [[literary journal]] or [[learned journal]], or a [[yearbook]]. |
| - | The term "'''serial'''" refers to the intrinsic property of a [[succession|series]] — namely, its [[sequence|order]]. In literature, the term is used as a noun to refer to a format (within a [[genre]]) by which a story is told in contiguous (typically [[chronological]]) installments in sequential issues of a single [[periodical publication]]. | + | |
| - | ==History== | + | |
| - | :''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (frame tale)]]'' | + | |
| - | The idea of stories being told in serial form dates back to the ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]]'' (''Arabian Nights''), which consisted of a series of serialized stories, or "serialized [[novel]]s" or [[novella]]s. Its [[frame story]] is about [[Sheherazade]] telling stories to King [[Shahriyar]], and she needs to keep him interested in each of the stories, in order to prevent him from executing her the next morning. | + | |
| - | In the [[19th century in literature|19th century]], many writers earned a living by writing stories in serial form for popular magazines. | + | These examples all are related to the idea of an indefinitely continuing cycle of production and publication: newspapers plan to continue publishing, not to stop after a predetermined number of editions. A novel, in contrast, might be published in monthly parts, a method revived after the success of ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]]. This approach is called '''part-publication''', particularly when each part is from a whole work, or a [[Serial (literature)|serial]], for example in [[comic book]]s or ''[[manga]]''. It flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century, for example with [[Abraham John Valpy]]'s ''Delphin Classics'', and was not restricted to [[fiction]]. |
| - | Many of [[Charles Dickens]]' novels, for example, were originally published in this manner, and that is the reason that many are so long — the more chapters Dickens wrote, the longer the serial continued in the magazine and the more money he was paid. | + | The [[International Standard Serial Number|International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)]] is to periodical publications what the [[ISBN]] is to books: a standardized reference number. |
| - | Other famous writers who wrote serial literature for popular magazines included [[Wilkie Collins]], inventor of the English [[detective novel]] and author of ''[[The Moonstone]]''; [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]], who created the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories originally for serialization in ''[[Strand Magazine|The Strand]]'' magazine; and the [[Poland|Polish]] writer [[Boleslaw Prus]], author of the serialized novels ''[[The Outpost (novel)|The Outpost]]'' (1885-86), ''[[The Doll (novel)|The Doll]]'' (1887-89), ''[[The New Woman (novel)|The New Woman]]'' (1890-93) and his sole [[historical novel]], ''[[Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh]]'' (the latter, exceptionally, written entire over a year's time in 1894-95 and serialized only ''after completion'', in 1895-96). | ||
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| - | [[Stephen King]] wrote his novel ''[[The Green Mile (novel)|The Green Mile]]'' as a serial. | ||
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| - | More recently, writers have been encouraged by the easy accessibility of the [[Internet]] to return to the serial format. [[Stephen King]] experimented with this format with ''[[The Plant]]'' (2000), and [[Michel Faber]] allowed ''The Guardian'' to serialise his novel, ''[[The Crimson Petal and the White]]''. | ||
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| - | Online serials have been used to create fictional communities, as in ''[[Presence]]'', or to reinterpret and comment on actually existing communities, as in ''[[Sydney Shards]]''. | ||
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A periodical publication, or just periodical, is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the newspaper, often published daily, or weekly; or the magazine, typically published weekly, monthly or as a quarterly. Other examples would be a newsletter, a literary journal or learned journal, or a yearbook.
These examples all are related to the idea of an indefinitely continuing cycle of production and publication: newspapers plan to continue publishing, not to stop after a predetermined number of editions. A novel, in contrast, might be published in monthly parts, a method revived after the success of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. This approach is called part-publication, particularly when each part is from a whole work, or a serial, for example in comic books or manga. It flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century, for example with Abraham John Valpy's Delphin Classics, and was not restricted to fiction.
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is to periodical publications what the ISBN is to books: a standardized reference number.
