Look up: Genre

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   Genre
   class or category of art or literature in accordance with characteristic form, technique and content; examples of literary genres are tragedy, comedy, and epic.
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   Genre
   Kind or style of literary output e.g. poem, novel, play, short story etc.
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   Genre
   A concept applied in media studies to refer to a distinct type of media product or cultural item. In the world of television, for example, different genres include soap opera, comedy, news programmes, sport and drama.
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   genre
   [n] - a kind of literary or artistic work 2. [n] - a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
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   Genre
   a species or type of media programme
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   Genre
   The French term for a species, type or class of composition. A literary genre is a recognisable, established category of written work which employs such common conventions as will prevent readers from mistaking it for another kind of genre.
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   Genre
   (Genre (generic)) Genre is a way of categorising texts according to similarities they share with those we already know. More generally, genre is a way of making the unfamiliar seem more familiar and hence, be more easily and quickly recognisable. New things might be unwanted, uncomfortable or even threatening. For instance, if we see an insect that...
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   Genre
   Genre painting is Art that depicts subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary people and common activities. Also a type of painting can be identified by the Genre ie the genre of the painting is Landscape or Marine.
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   Genre
   A way of categorising different types of moving image texts. As it has a particular usage in Film Studies it can often sound clumsy or inappropriate when applied to other media forms, like video or television. It is more common to talk of television formats, like the gameshow or the chatshow, for example. Genres are typically studied via reference ...
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    Genre
    a particular ‘type` / theme. Traditionally these types were history, landscape, portrait, and still life.
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    Genre
    this term refers to different types of writing, each with its own specific characteristics which relate to origin (legend/folk tale) or reader interest area - the types of books individuals particularly choose to read: adventure, romance, science fiction. Texts with these specific features - often related to story elements, patterns of language, s...
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    Genre
    Genre (zhäN'r') noun [ French See Gender .] (Fine Arts) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
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    Genre
    Gen're noun Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature. « French drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great French genre of the fabliau was hardly born.» Saintsbury. « A particular demand . . . that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres -- that is, to the different forms or categories of literature.» W. P. Tr ...
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    genre
    noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
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    genre
    noun a kind of literary or artistic work
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    Genre
    A `genre` [], (French: `kind` or `sort` from Greek: γένοÃ?‚ (genos)) is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other form of art or utterance. Genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries. Genres are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. The scop...
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    Genre
    • (n.) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners. • (n.) Kind; genus; class; form; style, esp. in literature.
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    genre
    [3 related articles]
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    genre
    a distinctive type or category of literary composition, such as the epic, tragedy, comedy, novel, and short story.[4 related articles]
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    genre
    Literary genres, categories or types are the short story, novel, novella, poem, and so on.
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    Genre
    A category of artistic work marked by a particular specified form, technique, or content
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    genre
    
    1. a kind of literary or artistic work
    2. a style of expressing yourself in writing
    3. an expressive style of music
    4. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
    
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    genre
    genre (zhän'ru) , in art-history terminology, a type of painting dealing with unidealized scenes and subjects of everyday life. Although practiced in ancient art, as shown by Pompeiian frescoes, and in the Middle Ages, genre was not recognized as worthy and independent subject matter until ...
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