Genre
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| Is metaclass for | creative work |
| Has list | list of genres |
Genre (wey be French word wey mean ‘kind’ or ‘type’)[1] na any kind style or way wey people dey use take communicate, whether na writing, talking, digital things, art or anything like that, wey people for society agree say e get rules or pattern wey dem dey follow.[2] For everyday life, genre dey show us different categories like book, music, film or art based on style.[3] Many times, one work fit enter more than one genre because e dey mix or borrow from different ones. One piece of work fit get e own unique style, but genre na like the combination of works wey follow some common rules people sabi. Some genres get strong rules dem no dey break, others dey more free. If you use the correct genre, e go make your message land well (we dey call am media-adequacy).[4]
The matter about genre start long time ago when one Greek philosopher Aristotle come write about am for him book "Poetics".[5] For ein time, e divide literature into poetry (like odes and epics), prose, and drama, and say each one get the kind content wey fit am. Like say, the kind talk for comedy no fit suit tragedy, and even actors dem no dey cross genre because dem believe say different people sabi act different stories best. Today, we dey call the academic study of genre ‘genre theory’ or ‘genre studies’.
Genre no remain static; e dey change as people and audience dey change.[6] E be like tool wey help people understand life and express their feelings when things hard or confuse. Because art dey reflect wetin dey happen around us, genre too must learn how to change so e fit talk the new meaning of life.
One scholar from another part of the world, Alireza Kaveh, bring new idea come — e talk say genre no be the same as style, format, medium or tradition, and e divide cinematic works into five categories wey e call Cinematic Taxonomy.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "genre". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
- ↑ Devitt, Amy J. (2015), Heilker, Paul; Vandenberg, Peter (eds.), "Genre", Keywords in Writing Studies, Utah State University Press, pp. 82–87, doi:10.7330/9780874219746.c017, ISBN 978-0-87421-974-6, archived from the original on 2020-11-30, retrieved 2021-02-04
- ↑ Miller, Carolyn R. (1984). ""Genre as Social Action"". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 70 (2): 151–167. doi:10.1080/00335638409383686.
- ↑ Giessen, Hans W (2015). "Media-Based Learning Methodology: Stories, Games, and Emotions". In Ally, Mohamed; Khan, Badrul H. (eds.). International Handbook of E-Learning Volume 2: Implementation and Case Studies. Routledge, 43-54.
- ↑ Aristotle (2000), Butcher, S. H. (ed.), Poetics, Internet Classics Archive, archived from the original on 2014-12-29, retrieved 2021-04-27
- ↑ Todorov, Tzvetan (1976), ""The Origins of Genre"", New Literary History, 8 (1): 159–170, doi:10.2307/468619, JSTOR 468619
External links
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Data from Wikidata
- Genres of film at the Internet Movie Database
- Helping Children Understand Literary Genres Archived 2021-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
- Rhetorica Genre Archived 2021-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
- Museum of Broadcast Communications Archived 2013-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Dictionary.com