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noun

Genre n.

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." "A particular demand... that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres that is, to the different forms or categories of literature."

(Fine Arts) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.

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Etymology of 'Genre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... regard Japanese verse as a literary form or in thinking of it otherwise than as an exercise in ingenuity, an Oriental puzzle; and this notion is heightened by the prevalence of the couplet-composing contests, which did much to heighten the artificiality of the genre. ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

... Stendhal in 1823,[42] "qui a le plus reussi en France depuis dix ans? Les romans de Walter Scott. . . . On s'est moque a Paris pendant vingt ans du roman historique; l'Academie a prouve doctement le ridicule de ce genre; nous y croyions tous, lorsque Walter Scott a paru, son Waverley a la main; et Balantyne, son libraire vient ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... egaye quelquefois sur Platon, dont le galimatias, regarde autrefois comme sublime, a fait plus de mal au genre humain ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... spirit, or their loyalty is monopolised by some fad or 'cause,' which is a poor substitute for love of country. The man who has no prejudices in favour of his own family and his own country is generally an unamiable creature. So we need not condemn Moliere for saying, 'L'ami du genre humain n'est pas du tout mon fait,' nor Brunetiere for declaring that 'Ni la nature ni l'histoire n'ont en effet voulu que les hommes fussent tous freres.' But French Neo-catholicism, a bourgeois movement directed against all the 'ideas of 1789,' seems to have adopted the ...

— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge

... residence in Italy, but for this there are collateral causes which it is not here the place to examine. Be this as it may, and whatever success may be attained in pictures of slight and unpretending aim, of genre, as they are called, in the rendering of foreign character, of this I am certain, that whatever is to be truly great and affecting must have on it the strong stamp of the native land; not a law this, but a necessity, from the intense ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

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