literary genre
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliteraryandgenre
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literary
adjective
uk/ˈlɪt.ər.ər.i/us/ˈlɪt̬.ə.rer.i/
relating to literature (= written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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genre
noun[C]
uk/ˈʒɑ̃ː.rə/us/ˈʒɑːn.rə/
a style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandgenrefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although kwakamai has dance and musical components, scholars consider its textual component as an independentliterarygenre.
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Each prize is awarded in a differentliterarygenrebetween various works entered in the competition.
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An entertaining conversationalist and raconteur he was well respected in his community and in hisliterarygenre.
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The fact of diversity is observed in comparing the diversity of time, culture, authors' perspectives,literarygenre, and the theological themes.
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Literarygenrestudies is a structuralist approach to the study of genre and genre theory in literary theory, film theory, and other cultural theories.
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We are in fact dealing with aliterarygenre.
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On the other hand, to the extent that the novel is aliterarygenre, it helps allay the concern that cultural studies displaces literary studies.
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But this decoupling between research practice andliterarygenreis general to experimental work.
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Such an attempt to chart the development of the prophetic and ultimately creativeliterarygenreof speculative fiction proves at times to be highly convincing.
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It seems that the illustrators did not change their illustration strategies according toliterarygenre.
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To begin to answer these questions, we need to look at the origins and development of thisliterarygenre.
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Letters are also distinct as aliterarygenre.
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As theliterarygenremost closely related, historically and culturally, to modernity, the novel has never really had an unproblematic relationship with reality.
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Three types can be distinguished on the basis of chronology andliterarygenre.
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Rather, chivalry as aliterarygenrecould constitute a joke when applied in the circumstances of real war.
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It is not immediately obvious that anecdote, given its status as either a distinctliterarygenreor a particular form of narrative, can be brought to bear on visual representation.
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As other scholars have argued, the rise of the novel as aliterarygenrecontributed to the development of bourgeois norms of courtship, matrimony, and child-rearing.
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A common motif in similar stories of the sameliterarygenre, is the novice making fools of the experts.
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