Literary Genre
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A Literary Genre is a genre in literature distinguished by a specific literary technique, tone, content, or length, often reflecting the cultural movement and historical period of its emergence.
- Context:
- It can (typically) serve as a means to classify literature into identifiable categories, facilitating easier navigation and selection for readers and scholars.
- It can (often) be identified not just by form (such as prose or poetry), but also by the presence of specific themes, settings, or narrative structures.
- It can (typically) evolve over time, with new genres emerging in response to cultural shifts, technological advancements, and changing reader preferences.
- It can (often) blur boundaries, with works frequently crossing over into multiple genres or subgenres, reflecting the fluid nature of literary categorization.
- It can (typically) include both broad overarching categories and more specific subgenres, offering a detailed framework for literary analysis and criticism.
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- Example(s):
- Magical Realism Genre (of magical realism works), characterized by the integration of magical elements into a realistic setting.
- Science Fiction Genre (of science fiction works), exploring futuristic, speculative, or technological themes.
- Fantasy Fiction Genre], featuring magical or supernatural elements set in imaginary worlds.
- Historical Fiction Genre], grounding narratives in real historical contexts with added fictional elements.
- Mystery Fiction Genre], focusing on the unraveling of secrets or crimes, often through a detective or investigative lens.
- Romance Fiction Genre], centering on love stories and emotional relationships between characters.
- Horror Fiction Genre], aiming to evoke fear, suspense, or shock in readers.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Literary Realism, Literature, Literary Technique, Setting Tone, Content (Media), Satire, Allegory, Pastoral, Cultural Movement.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_genre Retrieved:2023-10-20.
- A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally move from more abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-divided into more concrete distinctions. The distinctions between genres and categories are flexible and loosely defined, and even the rules designating genres change over time and are fairly unstable.
Genres can all be in the form of prose or poetry. Additionally, a genre such as satire, allegory or pastoral might appear in any of the above, not only as a subgenre (see below), but as a mixture of genres. , they are defined by the general cultural movement of the historical period in which they were composed.
- A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally move from more abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-divided into more concrete distinctions. The distinctions between genres and categories are flexible and loosely defined, and even the rules designating genres change over time and are fairly unstable.