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literary genre

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Noun1.literary genre - a style of expressing yourself in writing
writing style, genre
drama - the literary genre of works intended for the theater
prose - ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
form - an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form"
poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form


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Several major papers, including The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, have devoted articles to the phenomenon--though no one seems sure whether to treat it as a literary genre or a quaintly amusing hobby.
The fan fiction phenomena: what Faust, Hamlet, and Xena the Warrior ... by Young, Cathy / Reason
Walpole's fusion of the exotic and the supernatural may have been original enough to start an enduring literary genre, but his overblown dialogue and silly characters reduced this novel in print to little more than an academic footnote for generations.
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto by Levitov, Francine / Kliatt
It is in this atmosphere of belief in literary authority that American children's literature began to develop not only as a literary genre (it had been that for some time) but as a professional field, following the usual methods of legitimization such as the creation of awards, the establishment of professional experts, and the development of reviewing processes.
Finding literary goodness in a pluralistic world by Stevenson, Deborah / The Horn Book Magazine
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