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For the gay men's lifestyle magazine, see Genre (magazine).
A
genre , (
French language: "kind" or "sort" from
Greek language: γένος (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
Art#Art forms or utterance.
In all art forms, 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 scope of the word "genre" is sometimes confined to art and culture, particularly
Literary genre, but it has a long history in rhetoric as well. In
genre studies the concept of genre is not compared to originality. Rather, all works are recognized as either reflecting on or participating in the conventions of genre.
Subgenre and Hybrid Forms
Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature, for example, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, which are the classic genres of Ancient Greece:
poetry, drama, and
prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic poetry,
lyric poetry, and dramatic poetry. Subdivisions of drama includes foremost
comedy and tragedy, while eg. comedy itself has subgenres, including farce, comedy of manners,
Burlesque (genre), satire, and so on. However, any of these terms would be called "genre", and its possible more general terms implied.
Genre also has a rich tradition in speech-making and criticism. Classical rhetoricians in Greece suggested that there were three primary genres of speech: forensic, deliberative, and epideictic. Forensic speeches are informative, aiming to establish something that happened. Deliberative speeches try to persuade an audience. Epideictic speeches praise or blame a person, value, or event. As with literary genres, there are subgenres that exist under each of these over-arching genres: apologia, funeral orations, and the after-dinner speech might be considered three sub-genres of epideictic rhetoric.
Hybrid forms of different terms have been used, like a prose poem or a
tragicomedy. Science fiction has many recognized subgenres; a science fiction story may be rooted in real scientific expectations as they are understood at the time of writing (see
Hard science fiction). A more general term, coined by
Robert A. Heinlein, is "
speculative fiction," an umbrella term covering all such genres that depict alternate realities. Even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on
faster-than-light travel, are still science fiction, because science is a main subject in the piece of art.
Age categories
Most genres of fiction may also be segmented by the age of the intended reader:
Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature, for example, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, classic genres of Ancient Greece, poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic. Subdivisions of drama includes foremost comedy and tragedy, while eg. comedy itself has subgenres, including farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, satire, and so on. However, any of these terms would be called "genre", and its possible more general terms implied.
Genre also has a rich tradition in speech-making and criticism. Classical rhetoricians in Greece suggested that there were three primary genres of speech: forensic, deliberative, and epideictic. Forensic speeches are informative, aiming to establish something that happened. Deliberative speeches try to persuade an audience. Epideictic speeches praise or blame a person, value, or event. As with literary genres, there are subgenres that exist under each of these over-arching genres: apologia, funeral orations, and the after-dinner speech might be considered three sub-genres of epideictic rhetoric.
Hybrid forms of different terms have been used, like a prose poem or a tragicomedy. Science fiction has many recognized subgenres; a science fiction story may be rooted in real scientific expectations as they are understood at the time of writing (see Hard science fiction). A more general term, coined by Robert A. Heinlein, is "speculative fiction," an umbrella term covering all such genres that depict alternate realities. Even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on faster-than-light travel, are still science fiction, because science is a main subject in the piece of art.
Genre and audiences
Although genres are not precisely definable, genre considerations are one of the most important factors in determining what a person will see or read. Many genres have built-in audiences and corresponding publications that support them, such as
magazines and websites. Books and movies that are difficult to categorize into a genre are likely to be less successful commercially.
The term may be used in categorising
web pages, like "newspage" and "fanpage", with both very different layout, audience, and intention. Some search engines like Vivísimo try to group found web pages into automated categories in an attempt to show various genres the search hits might fit.
"Hierarchy of Genres" in painting
In the field of
painting, there exists a "
hierarchy of genres" associated with the
Académie française which once held a central role in
academic art. These genres in hierarchical order are:
These categories played an important role between the 17th century and the modern era, when
painters and
critics began to rebel against the many rules of the Académie française, including the Académie's preference for history painting.
Genre in linguistics
In Philosophy of language, figuring very prominently in the works of philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin's basic observations were of "speech genres" (the idea of heteroglossia), modes of speaking or writing that people learn to mimic, weave together, and manipulate (such as "formal letter" and "grocery list", or "university lecture" and "personal anecdote"). The work of
Georg Lukács also touches on the nature of
literary genres, appearing separately but around the same time (1920s–1930s) as Bakhtin.
See also
Genre articles by field
Lists of media by genre
- List of novelists by genre
External links
- Helping Children Understand Literary Genres
- Genres of film at the Internet Movie Database
For the gay men's lifestyle magazine, see Genre (magazine).
A
genre , (French language: "kind" or "sort" from Greek language: γένος (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
Art#Art forms or utterance.
In all art forms, 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 scope of the word "genre" is sometimes confined to art and culture, particularly
Literary genre, but it has a long history in rhetoric as well. In
genre studies the concept of genre is not compared to originality. Rather, all works are recognized as either reflecting on or participating in the conventions of genre.
Subgenre and Hybrid Forms
Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature, for example, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, which are the classic genres of Ancient Greece: poetry,
drama, and
prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic poetry, lyric poetry, and
dramatic poetry. Subdivisions of drama includes foremost
comedy and
tragedy, while eg. comedy itself has subgenres, including farce, comedy of manners, Burlesque (genre),
satire, and so on. However, any of these terms would be called "genre", and its possible more general terms implied.
Genre also has a rich tradition in speech-making and criticism. Classical rhetoricians in Greece suggested that there were three primary genres of speech: forensic, deliberative, and epideictic. Forensic speeches are informative, aiming to establish something that happened. Deliberative speeches try to persuade an audience. Epideictic speeches praise or blame a person, value, or event. As with literary genres, there are subgenres that exist under each of these over-arching genres: apologia, funeral orations, and the after-dinner speech might be considered three sub-genres of epideictic rhetoric.
Hybrid forms of different terms have been used, like a
prose poem or a tragicomedy. Science fiction has many recognized subgenres; a science fiction story may be rooted in real scientific expectations as they are understood at the time of writing (see Hard science fiction). A more general term, coined by
Robert A. Heinlein, is "
speculative fiction," an umbrella term covering all such genres that depict alternate realities. Even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on
faster-than-light travel, are still science fiction, because science is a main subject in the piece of art.
Age categories
Most genres of fiction may also be segmented by the age of the intended reader:
- Children's fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Young-adult fiction
- Adult fiction
Genres are often divided into subgenres. Literature, for example, is divided into three basic kinds of literature, classic genres of Ancient Greece, poetry, drama, and prose. Poetry may then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic. Subdivisions of drama includes foremost comedy and tragedy, while eg. comedy itself has subgenres, including farce, comedy of manners, burlesque, satire, and so on. However, any of these terms would be called "genre", and its possible more general terms implied.
Genre also has a rich tradition in speech-making and criticism. Classical rhetoricians in Greece suggested that there were three primary genres of speech: forensic, deliberative, and epideictic. Forensic speeches are informative, aiming to establish something that happened. Deliberative speeches try to persuade an audience. Epideictic speeches praise or blame a person, value, or event. As with literary genres, there are subgenres that exist under each of these over-arching genres: apologia, funeral orations, and the after-dinner speech might be considered three sub-genres of epideictic rhetoric.
Hybrid forms of different terms have been used, like a prose poem or a tragicomedy. Science fiction has many recognized subgenres; a science fiction story may be rooted in real scientific expectations as they are understood at the time of writing (see Hard science fiction). A more general term, coined by Robert A. Heinlein, is "speculative fiction," an umbrella term covering all such genres that depict alternate realities. Even fiction that depicts innovations ruled out by current scientific theory, such as stories about or based on faster-than-light travel, are still science fiction, because science is a main subject in the piece of art.
Genre and audiences
Although genres are not precisely definable, genre considerations are one of the most important factors in determining what a person will see or read. Many genres have built-in audiences and corresponding publications that support them, such as magazines and websites. Books and movies that are difficult to categorize into a genre are likely to be less successful commercially.
The term may be used in categorising web pages, like "newspage" and "fanpage", with both very different layout, audience, and intention. Some search engines like Vivísimo try to group found web pages into automated categories in an attempt to show various genres the search hits might fit.
"Hierarchy of Genres" in painting
In the field of painting, there exists a "hierarchy of genres" associated with the Académie française which once held a central role in academic art. These genres in hierarchical order are:
These categories played an important role between the 17th century and the modern era, when painters and critics began to rebel against the many rules of the Académie française, including the Académie's preference for history painting.
Genre in linguistics
In
Philosophy of language, figuring very prominently in the works of philosopher and literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin's basic observations were of "speech genres" (the idea of
heteroglossia), modes of speaking or writing that people learn to mimic, weave together, and manipulate (such as "formal letter" and "grocery list", or "university lecture" and "personal anecdote"). The work of Georg Lukács also touches on the nature of literary genres, appearing separately but around the same time (1920s–1930s) as Bakhtin.
See also
Genre articles by field
Lists of media by genre
- List of novelists by genre
External links
- Helping Children Understand Literary Genres
- Genres of film at the Internet Movie Database
Introduction to Genre Theory
These notes on Genre Theory by Daniel Chandler were produced to support courses on Media Theory, Learning from Television and Media Education.
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Welcome to Genre Range
Free resources and ideas to accompany Genre Range, a lively range of texts from Longman to expand your pupils' reading experiences.
Genre Ideologies and Narrative Transformation: Workshop 4
3 Year Programme of Workshops. Return to Project Outline. Return to Project Index. Return to Centre Homepage
