literary genre
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- noun
- /ˈlɪtəˌrɛri ˈʒɒnrə/
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género literario
- The literary genre of dystopian fiction explores themes of oppression and societal collapse.
- traditional literary genres
- other literary genres
- new literary genre
Examples
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Their co-published anthologies, plays, and short story collections are considered to have made science fiction an accepted literary genre in Norway.
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Picture books today contain poetry, biography, history, math, science, geography, and literary genres for all ages.
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As usual with this class, what we're going to do in this first part is talk about the literary genre of this work.
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Creating such is a tough task, perhaps the most difficult of the literary genres.
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And, I thought, I would explore the writing of history through other literary genres as well, for example, the love story or the murder mystery.
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During the war, there is a regression not only in subject matter but in entire literary genres.
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On what basis can the various elements of such stories about the martyrs be assigned to specific literary genres?
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At the same time, he bridges the gap between two distinct literary genres, using the quest theme as a common thread.
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Choosing a literary genre that is popular among adolescent readers increases their willingness and eagerness to read each comic thoroughly.
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Michel de Montaigne, traditional founder of the essay as a literary genre, wrote a short letter as a preface for his Essays (1580).
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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A kind of book, film or music that has a similar style
How Specific
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'genre' denotes a category or style and 'literary' restricts that category to literature, so the combined meaning ('a category of literary composition') is directly derivable from the parts. This structure is regular and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Literary genre comes from the idea of putting books into different 'kinds' because of their style or subject. Literary points to writing or books and genre means a 'kind', so the phrase means a group or 'category' of similar writing.