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Genre

Genre (/ˈʒɑːnrə/ ZHAHN-rə; French for 'kind, sort') is any style or form of communication and art in any mode (written, spoken, digital, visual, auditory, etc.) with socially agreed-upon elements, or conventions, developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, based on…

History, Culture, Music & Art

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Visual arts

Literature

Film

Music

Popular culture and other media

Linguistics

Rhetoric

History

Audiences

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Genre

Nodes133
Edges132
Triples157
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.015038
Components1

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Genre

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related to Music · 23
Genre → According, Agnus Dei, Beethoven's Op, Douglass, Form, Green, However, In, It, Mass, Mendelssohn's Op, Merwe, Mozart's Rondo, Music, Peter, Piano, Renaissance, Some, The, There
related to Further reading · 22
Genre → Anthony, Ceri, Change, Coe, Creskill, Disposable, Eds, Hampton Press, Identity, Ideology, Indications, ISBN, Lorelei Lingard, Modern Language Review, NJ, Pare, Richard, Stability, Strategies, Sullivan
related to Classical and Romance genre theory · 21
Genre → Architext, Aristotle, Aristotle's, Essentially, Excluding, Friedrich Schlegel's, Genette, German, Gérard Genette, He, However, Lyric, Plato, Plato's, Such, The, The Architext, These, This, Western
related to Rhetoric · 14
Genre → Alfred Schütz, Bawarshi, Bazerman, Building, Carolyn Miller's, Charles Bazerman, Clay Spinuzzi, Drawing, In, Lloyd Bitzer's, Miller, On, Reiff, Spinuzzi
related to Linguistics · 9
Genre → Bakhtin, Bakhtin's, Fairclough, Genres, Georg Lukács, In, Mikhail Bakhtin, Norman Fairclough, The
related to External links · 7
Genre → Broadcast Communications Archived, Genres, Internet Movie DatabaseHelping Children, Understand Literary Genres Archived, Wayback MachineDictionary, Wayback MachineMuseum, Wayback MachineRhetorica Genre Archived
related to history · 7
Genre → Ancient Greece, Aristotle, Many, Plato, Poetry, The, This
related to Film · 6
Genre → Hollywood, Indian Bollywood, Many, Most, The, Western
related to Literature · 6
Genre → Additionally, Finally, Genres, In, The, They
related to Visual arts · 6
Genre → Académie, France, It, The, These, They

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genres music poetry system mode may literature often plato art lyric literary epic narrative genette aristotle also theory systems style

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Genreis acategory of literary composition0.90text
Genreis aconventional category that identifies pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions0.90text
still-lifeinstance ofcan also be used to refer to specialized types of art0.80text
landscapesinstance ofcan also be used to refer to specialized types of art0.80text
marine paintingsinstance ofcan also be used to refer to specialized types of art0.80text
animal paintingsinstance ofcan also be used to refer to specialized types of art0.80text
or groups of artworks with other particular features in terms of subject-matterinstance ofcan also be used to refer to specialized types of art0.80text
style or iconography.The concept of theinstance ofcan also be used to refer to specialized types of art0.80text
satire might appear in any of the aboveinstance ofa genre0.80text
not only as a subgenre but as a mixture of genresinstance ofa genre0.80text
wordsinstance ofand the medium of presentation0.80text
gestures or verseinstance ofand the medium of presentation0.80text

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