This video now includes Spanish as well as English subtitles. For a full list of dual-language videos in our series, please see the following site: liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/oregon-state-guide-english-literary-terms
This is awesome. You are a great presenter and I love how you explained genre. I actually came to the site looking for Metalepsis but ended up just enjoying watching the videos. One tiny little thought might be that the music is just a tiny bit too loud, especially around 4:22 minutes into the video. If you or the person who mixes your sound takes it down just a notch or two it would be much easier to concentrate on what you are saying. Thanks so much for doing such a great job otherwise creating this and for posting it! It is so kind people offer these these sorts of things to the community.
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment, Kate! We're so happy to hear you enjoyed the lesson--Professor Pflugfelder is such a great teacher--and we'll keep the music down in future videos. We went a little wild with the noise early on in our recording history...
I’m a brazilian student of Languages and Literature in Portuguese and English and my teacher asked us to see this video, it’s very great and clarifying thank you :)
Thanks so much for your kind words, ane. We're delighted to hear that you found the video clarifying (and that our videos have made it to Brazil--wow!) Good luck with your studies.
This was a really interesting watch. I came here because I'm thinking about how like Tolkien essentially created a genre , and I've been wondering if I would be able to do something like that or really just what that is. You didn't say anything super surprising or that I felt I didn't know, but you explained everything so clearly that it still somehow helped a lot and cleared things up. You helped organize things for me, kind of. Thanks.
Genre is category of literature. Genres maybe determined by literary techniques, tone , content, length especially in fiction. There are four main genres in literature poetry, fiction, non fiction, drama . Each genre share certain characteristics that place them in same category, furthermore categories of literature can be divided into subgenres . For reader genres help to organize information so that they can make easily make sense of what they are about to read . Genre structure indicates to reader who or what change of story will be effect . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.
Some genre theorists disagree and argue that medium shapes the genre. For instance, an email is a genre bounded by the technological context and its feature are not the same as a letter or a poem for instance, such as adding a subject line, greetings, signature, etc. The medium shapes the rhetorical moves and basically creates another genre. For instance, letters and emails are separate genres because they respond to quite distinct rhetorical situations because. From a functional and sociorhetorical approach, genres are tools used to "get things done" and medium is just another aspect of the genre and not just a way to produce a genre. In this case, letters and emails don't "do" similar things or resolve the same problems. Despite the theoretical differences, the video is quite useful. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for the comment, @gilbertopereira7624 ! We agree that there is certainly much more to say about genre than we were able to cover in this short video. The medium, as McLuhan writes, is the message, and a given medium certainly shapes our understanding of what genres are and how they might be understood. Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
Wow wow wow, super sir, our professors never taught these basic terms and went on to teach loads and loads of stuff 😑 now after everything I feel like I'm learning every single word again...
I got a lot of good information from this video. Though I love the oboe, I found, "The Music needed, to accompany genre," distracting. Thank you for the subtitles.
Sir, We, the literary enthusiasts have been captivated by the way this channel explains literary terms. We extend our full suppot to this channel and we also understand its worth. Dreams remain dream because of one or the other reason. Talented are struggling hard to eliminate and overcome the hindrances coming in their way. I was mesmerized the way the entire teaching fraternity explains. It is an honour for me to be your pupil. I am pursuing my M.A. in English language and literature. Will the Oregon State University honour the millions of aspirants throughout the globe through online lectures on english literature ? From INDIA
Wow, thanks so much Zakir! We are delighted to hear that the videos are reaching a wide audience, and we are certainly interested in expanding this project to include different kinds of lessons when the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. In the meantime, we'll continue to try to put out as many short literary terms videos as we can to help everyone who is learning (or teaching) remotely during this challenging time. You can also check out Oregon State's E-Campus opportunities in English Literature here: ecampus.oregonstate.edu/soc/ecatalog/ecourselist.htm?termcode=202003&subject=ENG
Many thanks, Autumn. Genres often extert a great deal of pressure on what a character can and cannot do in a given text. In a tragedy, a "great" person must be brought low or die. In a comedy (in the classic sense), a couple must get married at the end. In a Western, the hero must resolve a conflict violently. These generic structures enable some amount of wiggle room for characters, but certainly steer their actions (and therefore their roles( in a book or film.
Thanks so much, Cynx YT! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well (and we'll try to get Prof. Pflugfelder to record another video when the quarantine lifts).
nothing personal, but it all sounded like what it looks like when a dog chases his tail ... I guess I should be thankful you responded...and that you have a tail to chase. Thanks for your very human pingback. Hope you have a great night sorting the genres. So, now I proved I can blah blah blah, too ! Cheers, friend.
@@SWLF Do you have a book recommendation for a 16 year old guy who is homeschooled ? I realize that may be an impossible request, because you know nothing about my grandson. He is partial to history and biography and he's listened to many hours of audio books, and reads only occasionally (even though he is an excellent high school level reader). I'd be interested in any of your recommendations.
Thanks so much, Jasman! An easy way to find out the genre it to look up in the book in a library database. They usually sort books by genre types (so do bookstores). If in the process of reading, you can identify a few elements of a genre, you can then start to anticipate what will happen next. It gets easier the more books of a given genre you read--trust us. Thanks for the comment and the question!
Oh god! This is videos are so good and informative for a English student like me. Thanks for it. The sad part is that it ends soon. Do you have any idea about creating long videos?
Thanks so much, Praveen! As of right now, we plan to keep the videos in this series (and in our grammar series) fairly short, but we're certainly open to suggestions for longer video topics!
@@SWLF Here are my few topics that I find more captivating : 1) The role of Exophonic authors in English literature 2) What makes some works controversial? 3) What's your prediction about future of English literature? Do you think still there are any rules unbroken? Does it have the potential to expand from the current margins? 4) And lastly, what is literature? What is it's use, purpose and applications?
@@PraveenKumar-kj8rq Thanks so much for these thoughtful suggestions, Praveen! We'll certainly give these ideas and the prospect of longer videos some thought as we plan out the next year of our channel. And we will be rolling out a video pretty soon that directly addresses #4, so stay tuned...
Hmm, we certainly hope the videos aren't used as an opportunity to cheat on school assignments, Juliette. They should serve as a supplement to what you're doing in class, not a substitute.
Good question, Sarah! We meant recurring actions in the plot (some might call them tropes) like the kiss at the end of rom-com movies. These actions / events clue readers and watchers in to the fact that the story they are being told operates within a decipherable genre.
How do you decide what literary features various works share? For instance, is a western simply a movie that has horses and wagons and is set in the west? Or is there something more fundamental. Was an O. Henry story from The Heart of the West really a "Western?" For me, a movie is not a Western if it doesn't deal with the theme of life on the frontier, that is, life on the cusp of civilization. For me the most confusing genre is Science Fiction. Is Stars Wars science fiction? It doesn't really deal with science directly. Can a science fiction story just have some cool tech and be called science fiction or what is required to categorize something as sci-fi. Professor Rabkin of University of Chicago defines "Science fiction [as] the branch of fantastic literature that seeks plausibility against a background of science. " This would seem to eliminate stories like Star Wars which has technology but doesn't really claim any kind of plausibility. It's set more in a fantasy world "In a Galaxy Far Far Away," being its "Once upon a time."
Great question, Kirk! The answer to this one has been debated for quite some time, and one way to answer it is to begin with the observation that genres are socially constructed. Like other socially constructed things, their meaning is made, not uncovered. What this means is that authors (and to a certain extent readers and critics) actively choose to define (and therefore make) the features of a given genre based upon what they identify as central properties of a given group of texts. This is what Prof. Pflugfelder means when he says that genres are constantly changing based upon what a given culture agrees upon at a given time period. In the 1930s through the 1960s, many authors and filmmakers saw the frontier to be a powerful symbol of American identity, and therefore they might be thought to have created (rather than discovered) the genre of the Western. Many critics would say that that genre evolved in the 70s and 80s into forms of science fiction that drew heavily upon Western themes (e.g. Star Wars, with its many Western tropes). At the same time, a separate group of writers were attempting to construct a new kind of fiction based upon the ideas that Rabkin defines in your quote, which was , unfortunately, given the same name. The important thing to remember is that Rabkin (and the authors he addresses) are trying to will a new structure into being, and they are often doing so in competition with other groups of authors with other notions of what constitutes the same genre. All this means that (to our mind) we should spend less time trying to figure out a universal, absolute definition of sci-fi or any other genre and more time trying to determine why certain repeated themes or structures emerge and dissipate at certain moments in history. That is a far murkier definition of genre than one that attempts to fit a text of any period into an absolute genre category, but it is one that leads to more productive discussion and debate. That's our two cents! What does everyone else think?
@@SWLF *btw I said Rabkin was University of Chicago, he's a professor at University of Michigan. Thank you for your response. That was very helpful! Would you say there is a category "higher" than genre? Something more universal? For instance, in the horror genre there may be certain images that recur across various works of literary art, but the more universal for a horror story is "dealing with a sordid past." Obviously that's not a great definition. But I think it captures something that goes across time and across all types of horror. Most horror films, especially ones that are more literary, seem to to deal with some kind of horrific past, often one that has been forgotten or ignored: Trespassing on sacred or Indian ground, a religious transgression, slavery, spousal abuse, child abuse, murder, incense etc. So genre deals with specifics like "kitchen knives, flickering lights, creepy figures in the woods," whereas this "higher" universal category deals with something else. I just don't know what specifically. I suppose psychology would be a simple answer.
I am disguised by people who use this word. Style or category allows discussions to take place or not. What style of music do you like? Blues, what kind of blues? New Orleans blues. That's cool, so do I. Some words are much simpler and less snobby sounding , at the same time allowing interactions with one another, which is desperately needed in this day and time. I have band the word genre from being used in my home . It's like many words today that were never heard because they were archaic . Then a word snob came along and wanted to make others feel inferior, so they drag a dead word back from the grave. Then, others who were subjected to the snobbery use it in a Chan reaction of wanting to be viewed as intelligent. I would go so far as to call it a lawyer word. Lawyer words"my own term" are used to keep other laye people from clearly following what is being said.the jest of it all is called "double talk". Just how I see things and my two cents.
Thanks for the comment, @arkman8109. We certainly don't want to make anyone feel inferior in these lessons. A major goal of this series is to demystify certain literary concepts for our viewers so that they can join the conversation! Genre is a term that has proven to be quite useful in conversations about different kinds of writing, and learning this term will, we hope, enable you to see different aspects of the literature (or music) you love.
@SWLF as a life long music lover in my late 60s and audiophile, I have never had a deficiency using the terms style or type when referring to music. On the contrary , descusions revolved around the music rather than another's catch phrases. Some of the greatest music in history was written and played by ordinary people with little to no education. So , no, I do not feel uncomfortable about the discussion. My opinions speak for themselves, as always, education should not be one sided. Just remember , life is lived n the real world, not the classroom.
Hmm, we're a little unclear on the question, Selviana. Are you asking what genre the video itself is? If so, we'd probably call it an educational video (that is what UA-cam would call it).
Have you guys have read Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Klipling in story there is a genre in the story and it's not that hard to read and you can find the genre very easily. Am I 👍
Interesting! What genre do you think this story fits into, @user-ef5pw4fu2y @user-ef5pw4fu2y? We could see it being placed in different ways depending upon what is emphasized--amimal fable, coming-of-age-story, allegory, and so on.
@@SWLF Genre in general is a codified set of rules and characteristics of individual works of art, or groups of works of art ('detective fiction'/'gothic novel'), right? In this sense, is quirk (see, for example, the works of Wes Anderson) a genre? And if not, under what conditions might it be?
@@bohuslavlojkasek4877 Interesting! We're not as familiar with this term, but we do love Wes Anderson. We would say that in order for "quirk" (or any other term) to become legible as a genre designation, other directors in other films would need to adopt or repurpose those same conventions / characteristics, and that repurposing would need to take place over a longer period than might be available at present. Culture moves much faster now than in earlier periods, of course, but even so, genres require some time to solidify enough in a reader's (or viewer's) mind to set up the expectations that a given work would either fulfill or subvert.
What about the romantic comedy genre? That has been established for less than 10 years. Even judged by itself - see the film ROMANTIC COMEDY 101. Wasn't this speed due to the amount of audience popularity, expressed in billions of viewers. The interest of the theorists here was initially more or less as small as the quirk I proposed...@@SWLF
Thanks for the question, Wynne! The first Gothic novel is Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, but we recommend starting with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. If you don't have time for a novel, Edgar Allan Poe's short stories are chock full of Gothic conventions. If you're looking for a contemporary novel that draws heavily upon the Gothic, you can't go wrong with Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. If you're looking for a funnier contemporary take on the Gothic, check out Karen Russell's dazzling short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. That'll get you started, we hope!
@@tetzlaffjo Ohhh, sorry, Jodi. That'll cost you. Let's see how much Jodi risked... $6500. That takes her score down to $12,450, and that takes us to Final Jeopardy. But first a short commercial break.
This video now includes Spanish as well as English subtitles. For a full list of dual-language videos in our series, please see the following site: liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/oregon-state-guide-english-literary-terms
You explain so clearly, anyone could understand what you are trying to explain, thanks alot.
Thanks so much, Irrelevance! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
This is awesome. You are a great presenter and I love how you explained genre. I actually came to the site looking for Metalepsis but ended up just enjoying watching the videos. One tiny little thought might be that the music is just a tiny bit too loud, especially around 4:22 minutes into the video. If you or the person who mixes your sound takes it down just a notch or two it would be much easier to concentrate on what you are saying. Thanks so much for doing such a great job otherwise creating this and for posting it! It is so kind people offer these these sorts of things to the community.
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment, Kate! We're so happy to hear you enjoyed the lesson--Professor Pflugfelder is such a great teacher--and we'll keep the music down in future videos. We went a little wild with the noise early on in our recording history...
I’m a brazilian student of Languages and Literature in Portuguese and English and my teacher asked us to see this video, it’s very great and clarifying thank you :)
Thanks so much for your kind words, ane. We're delighted to hear that you found the video clarifying (and that our videos have made it to Brazil--wow!) Good luck with your studies.
This was a really interesting watch. I came here because I'm thinking about how like Tolkien essentially created a genre , and I've been wondering if I would be able to do something like that or really just what that is. You didn't say anything super surprising or that I felt I didn't know, but you explained everything so clearly that it still somehow helped a lot and cleared things up. You helped organize things for me, kind of. Thanks.
Thanks so much, Adrian. We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well. Good luck with your writing!
Simple, Easy and Actually understanding!
Thanks, Zaynab! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well.
Genre is category of literature. Genres maybe determined by literary techniques, tone , content, length especially in fiction. There are four main genres in literature poetry, fiction, non fiction, drama . Each genre share certain characteristics that place them in same category, furthermore categories of literature can be divided into subgenres . For reader genres help to organize information so that they can make easily make sense of what they are about to read . Genre structure indicates to reader who or what change of story will be effect . Thank you for your wonderful educational literary channel.
Excellent paraphrase, Khatoon! We're so thankful for all of your thoughtful comments!
Some genre theorists disagree and argue that medium shapes the genre. For instance, an email is a genre bounded by the technological context and its feature are not the same as a letter or a poem for instance, such as adding a subject line, greetings, signature, etc. The medium shapes the rhetorical moves and basically creates another genre. For instance, letters and emails are separate genres because they respond to quite distinct rhetorical situations because. From a functional and sociorhetorical approach, genres are tools used to "get things done" and medium is just another aspect of the genre and not just a way to produce a genre. In this case, letters and emails don't "do" similar things or resolve the same problems. Despite the theoretical differences, the video is quite useful. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for the comment, @gilbertopereira7624 ! We agree that there is certainly much more to say about genre than we were able to cover in this short video. The medium, as McLuhan writes, is the message, and a given medium certainly shapes our understanding of what genres are and how they might be understood. Thanks for keeping the conversation going!
Wow wow wow, super sir, our professors never taught these basic terms and went on to teach loads and loads of stuff 😑 now after everything I feel like I'm learning every single word again...
Wow! Thanks so much, Hema!
These video's are incredibly helpful, Thank you for your efforts!
Thanks so much for supporting the series, Zuljann! Stay healthy!
I got a lot of good information from this video. Though I love the oboe, I found, "The Music needed, to accompany genre," distracting. Thank you for the subtitles.
Thanks for the comment, Glenna! We'll keep the music down in future video lessons...
Sir,
We, the literary enthusiasts have been captivated by the way this channel explains literary terms. We extend our full suppot to this channel and we also understand its worth.
Dreams remain dream because of one or the other reason. Talented are struggling hard to eliminate and overcome the hindrances coming in their way.
I was mesmerized the way the entire teaching fraternity explains. It is an honour for me to be your pupil.
I am pursuing my M.A. in English language and literature. Will the Oregon State University honour the millions of aspirants throughout the globe through online lectures on english literature ?
From INDIA
Wow, thanks so much Zakir! We are delighted to hear that the videos are reaching a wide audience, and we are certainly interested in expanding this project to include different kinds of lessons when the COVID-19 pandemic subsides. In the meantime, we'll continue to try to put out as many short literary terms videos as we can to help everyone who is learning (or teaching) remotely during this challenging time. You can also check out Oregon State's E-Campus opportunities in English Literature here: ecampus.oregonstate.edu/soc/ecatalog/ecourselist.htm?termcode=202003&subject=ENG
Thank you for the video this helped me a lot! But I do have one last question. How does the genre influence the character’s role of a book or film?
Many thanks, Autumn. Genres often extert a great deal of pressure on what a character can and cannot do in a given text. In a tragedy, a "great" person must be brought low or die. In a comedy (in the classic sense), a couple must get married at the end. In a Western, the hero must resolve a conflict violently. These generic structures enable some amount of wiggle room for characters, but certainly steer their actions (and therefore their roles( in a book or film.
Thank you for your explanation and also the video. This was really helpful.
1:48 - Did the colorist for the video just show ungraded log for 2 seconds here?
Ha! We wanted something to demonstrate the rule-breaking that Dr. Pflugfelder was discussing at that precise moment. Or we screwed up. Good catch!
You explained this so clearly, thanks so much. It really helped.
Thanks so much for supporting the series, Nakayla!
Apparently I attend two Universities now. Thank you!
Ha! Welcome to Beaver Nation, Adex!
Thank You for the video it was understanding
Thanks so much, Kendra! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
I love the way you explain
Thanks so much, Cynx YT! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well (and we'll try to get Prof. Pflugfelder to record another video when the quarantine lifts).
Love the video. I wish could find worksheets for students with this Univ.
Thanks so much, J.A.! If you want more info on the term, check out the dedicated page on our website: liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-genre
This is so good thanks for this video
Thanks so much, Jecely! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
nothing personal, but it all sounded like what it looks like when a dog chases his tail ... I guess I should be thankful you responded...and that you have a tail to chase.
Thanks for your very human pingback. Hope you have a great night sorting the genres. So, now I proved I can blah blah blah, too ! Cheers, friend.
Thanks for the comment, Eric. Genre theory can be a confusing but fascinating rabbit hole to fall through. Good luck to you in your reading!
@@SWLF Do you have a book recommendation for a 16 year old guy who is homeschooled ?
I realize that may be an impossible request, because you know nothing about my grandson. He is partial to history and biography and he's listened to many hours of audio books, and reads only occasionally (even though he is an excellent high school level reader). I'd be interested in any of your recommendations.
Great video! I'll be adding this to my useful videos list that my students use. I enjoyed your explanation.
Thanks so much for your kind words, Devon. We hope your students like the video!
This was really helpful but i have a small question.How can you find out a genre in a book without knowing what may happen next?
Thanks so much, Jasman! An easy way to find out the genre it to look up in the book in a library database. They usually sort books by genre types (so do bookstores). If in the process of reading, you can identify a few elements of a genre, you can then start to anticipate what will happen next. It gets easier the more books of a given genre you read--trust us. Thanks for the comment and the question!
Great summary and introduction!
Thanks so much, Sir Gareth (and great name)! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well.
Sir your explanation is excellent❤️👌
Thanks so much, Johnmartin! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
Oh god! This is videos are so good and informative for a English student like me.
Thanks for it.
The sad part is that it ends soon. Do you have any idea about creating long videos?
Thanks so much, Praveen! As of right now, we plan to keep the videos in this series (and in our grammar series) fairly short, but we're certainly open to suggestions for longer video topics!
@@SWLF I agree. For grammar, it will be tasty only when it's tiny.
@@SWLF Here are my few topics that I find more captivating :
1) The role of Exophonic authors in English literature
2) What makes some works controversial?
3) What's your prediction about future of English literature? Do you think still there are any rules unbroken? Does it have the potential to expand from the current margins?
4) And lastly, what is literature? What is it's use, purpose and applications?
@@PraveenKumar-kj8rq Thanks so much for these thoughtful suggestions, Praveen! We'll certainly give these ideas and the prospect of longer videos some thought as we plan out the next year of our channel. And we will be rolling out a video pretty soon that directly addresses #4, so stay tuned...
@@PraveenKumar-kj8rq Ha! We agree.
Who’s here to cheat ur gogle slides in school 👀
Hmm, we certainly hope the videos aren't used as an opportunity to cheat on school assignments, Juliette. They should serve as a supplement to what you're doing in class, not a substitute.
Me Bc I forget ALOTTT
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Sir, thank you and What do you mean by events that repeat themselves? I do not understand this point
Good question, Sarah! We meant recurring actions in the plot (some might call them tropes) like the kiss at the end of rom-com movies. These actions / events clue readers and watchers in to the fact that the story they are being told operates within a decipherable genre.
Wow you helped me!
Thanks so much, Bing! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
How do you decide what literary features various works share? For instance, is a western simply a movie that has horses and wagons and is set in the west? Or is there something more fundamental. Was an O. Henry story from The Heart of the West really a "Western?" For me, a movie is not a Western if it doesn't deal with the theme of life on the frontier, that is, life on the cusp of civilization.
For me the most confusing genre is Science Fiction. Is Stars Wars science fiction? It doesn't really deal with science directly. Can a science fiction story just have some cool tech and be called science fiction or what is required to categorize something as sci-fi. Professor Rabkin of University of Chicago defines "Science fiction [as] the branch of fantastic literature that seeks plausibility against a background of science. "
This would seem to eliminate stories like Star Wars which has technology but doesn't really claim any kind of plausibility. It's set more in a fantasy world "In a Galaxy Far Far Away," being its "Once upon a time."
Great question, Kirk! The answer to this one has been debated for quite some time, and one way to answer it is to begin with the observation that genres are socially constructed. Like other socially constructed things, their meaning is made, not uncovered. What this means is that authors (and to a certain extent readers and critics) actively choose to define (and therefore make) the features of a given genre based upon what they identify as central properties of a given group of texts. This is what Prof. Pflugfelder means when he says that genres are constantly changing based upon what a given culture agrees upon at a given time period. In the 1930s through the 1960s, many authors and filmmakers saw the frontier to be a powerful symbol of American identity, and therefore they might be thought to have created (rather than discovered) the genre of the Western. Many critics would say that that genre evolved in the 70s and 80s into forms of science fiction that drew heavily upon Western themes (e.g. Star Wars, with its many Western tropes). At the same time, a separate group of writers were attempting to construct a new kind of fiction based upon the ideas that Rabkin defines in your quote, which was , unfortunately, given the same name. The important thing to remember is that Rabkin (and the authors he addresses) are trying to will a new structure into being, and they are often doing so in competition with other groups of authors with other notions of what constitutes the same genre.
All this means that (to our mind) we should spend less time trying to figure out a universal, absolute definition of sci-fi or any other genre and more time trying to determine why certain repeated themes or structures emerge and dissipate at certain moments in history. That is a far murkier definition of genre than one that attempts to fit a text of any period into an absolute genre category, but it is one that leads to more productive discussion and debate.
That's our two cents! What does everyone else think?
@@SWLF *btw I said Rabkin was University of Chicago, he's a professor at University of Michigan.
Thank you for your response. That was very helpful!
Would you say there is a category "higher" than genre? Something more universal? For instance, in the horror genre there may be certain images that recur across various works of literary art, but the more universal for a horror story is "dealing with a sordid past." Obviously that's not a great definition. But I think it captures something that goes across time and across all types of horror. Most horror films, especially ones that are more literary, seem to to deal with some kind of horrific past, often one that has been forgotten or ignored: Trespassing on sacred or Indian ground, a religious transgression, slavery, spousal abuse, child abuse, murder, incense etc. So genre deals with specifics like "kitchen knives, flickering lights, creepy figures in the woods," whereas this "higher" universal category deals with something else. I just don't know what specifically.
I suppose psychology would be a simple answer.
And your explination is so truific👌👌👌💕
Thanks so much! We hope you enjoy the other videos in our series as well!
What is the material all about?
I am disguised by people who use this word.
Style or category allows discussions to take place or not.
What style of music do you like?
Blues, what kind of blues? New Orleans blues.
That's cool, so do I.
Some words are much simpler and less snobby sounding , at the same time allowing interactions with one another, which is desperately needed in this day and time.
I have band the word genre from being used in my home .
It's like many words today that were never heard because they were archaic .
Then a word snob came along and wanted to make others feel inferior, so they drag a dead word back from the grave.
Then, others who were subjected to the snobbery use it in a Chan reaction of wanting to be viewed as intelligent.
I would go so far as to call it a lawyer word.
Lawyer words"my own term" are used to keep other laye people from clearly following what is being said.the jest of it all is called "double talk".
Just how I see things and my two cents.
Thanks for the comment, @arkman8109. We certainly don't want to make anyone feel inferior in these lessons. A major goal of this series is to demystify certain literary concepts for our viewers so that they can join the conversation! Genre is a term that has proven to be quite useful in conversations about different kinds of writing, and learning this term will, we hope, enable you to see different aspects of the literature (or music) you love.
@SWLF as a life long music lover in my late 60s and audiophile, I have never had a deficiency using the terms style or type when referring to music.
On the contrary , descusions revolved around the music rather than another's catch phrases.
Some of the greatest music in history was written and played by ordinary people with little to no education.
So , no, I do not feel uncomfortable about the discussion.
My opinions speak for themselves, as always, education should not be one sided.
Just remember , life is lived n the real world, not the classroom.
Could you produce a video on the Pastoral genre please?
That is on our list!
BANGING VID BRO! COMPLETE HEAT❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Ha! Thanks so much, michael! We hope you like the other videos in our series as well!
very nice explaining sire, funny but also educational
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I have a question in a musical or when your listening to music what genre is it
Interesting! Music also has a number of different genres (rock, rap, classical) and sub-genres within those genres. So it depends...
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What is the genre used in the material viewed?
Hmm, we're a little unclear on the question, Selviana. Are you asking what genre the video itself is? If so, we'd probably call it an educational video (that is what UA-cam would call it).
Have you guys have read Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Klipling in story there is a genre in the story and it's not that hard to read and you can find the genre very easily. Am I 👍
Interesting! What genre do you think this story fits into, @user-ef5pw4fu2y
@user-ef5pw4fu2y? We could see it being placed in different ways depending upon what is emphasized--amimal fable, coming-of-age-story, allegory, and so on.
Quirk as a separate genre?
What do you know about this theme?
Hmm, could you give us a bit more context, Bohuslav? We're not sure we understand the question.
@@SWLF Genre in general is a codified set of rules and characteristics of individual works of art, or groups of works of art ('detective fiction'/'gothic novel'), right?
In this sense, is quirk (see, for example, the works of Wes Anderson) a genre?
And if not, under what conditions might it be?
@@bohuslavlojkasek4877 Interesting! We're not as familiar with this term, but we do love Wes Anderson. We would say that in order for "quirk" (or any other term) to become legible as a genre designation, other directors in other films would need to adopt or repurpose those same conventions / characteristics, and that repurposing would need to take place over a longer period than might be available at present. Culture moves much faster now than in earlier periods, of course, but even so, genres require some time to solidify enough in a reader's (or viewer's) mind to set up the expectations that a given work would either fulfill or subvert.
Thank you for the clear statement! @@SWLF
What about the romantic comedy genre?
That has been established for less than 10 years.
Even judged by itself - see the film ROMANTIC COMEDY 101.
Wasn't this speed due to the amount of audience popularity, expressed in billions of viewers.
The interest of the theorists here was initially more or less as small as the quirk I proposed...@@SWLF
Me : "How stupid can you be?"
Him/Her : "Is E-mail a genre?"
Thanks alot... ✌️👏👍
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What are some gothic novel suggestions?
Thanks for the question, Wynne! The first Gothic novel is Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, but we recommend starting with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. If you don't have time for a novel, Edgar Allan Poe's short stories are chock full of Gothic conventions. If you're looking for a contemporary novel that draws heavily upon the Gothic, you can't go wrong with Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. If you're looking for a funnier contemporary take on the Gothic, check out Karen Russell's dazzling short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. That'll get you started, we hope!
Excellent work!
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I wouldn't call Ant-Man a parody of the Superhero genre. If it's a parody at all, it's a parody of the Heist movie genre.
Thanks for the comment, Nicholas! We'd say as a parody, it casts a pretty wide net. What elements of the heist movie do you see it parodying?
Thx bro it really helped
Ha! Thank, bro.
Sana all genre
Thx
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I don't understand 😭
The reason why ant man is funny is because Gregg Turkington plays a fantastically hilarious role as the boss of Baskin and Robbins.
Gotta add "heist movie" as a genre for Ant Man
You're the second person today to make this observation! Yes! But is it also a Rom-Com?
I am coming here because of my assignment
Well, we hope you found it useful, Hareeni!
Love it. Liked 555.
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Ant-Man is a heist movie too!
Ha! You're right, Sean! Ant-Man is truly a buffet of genres!
Wow
We hope that means you liked it, Irmãos!
Anyone watching this at school not knowing what it meant
Well, we hope you know now, Daniel! Good luck with your studies.
🤓 nerd but actually thank you
Ha! What's wrong with being a nerd?
Esta chido pero tus lentes te asen ber pende😢j😢o😢
I'll take French Pretension for $800 please, Alex.
1820's Melmoth the Wanderer by a great-uncle of Oscar Wilde was in this spooky genre of the Romantic novel.
@@SWLF Dude, I don't know! I come here to learn stuff, not because I know stuff.
@@tetzlaffjo Ohhh, sorry, Jodi. That'll cost you. Let's see how much Jodi risked... $6500. That takes her score down to $12,450, and that takes us to Final Jeopardy. But first a short commercial break.
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I think he wrote it by mestake?
I lot it
Sorry I love it
@@Heatracers Ha! No worries, Seema! Thanks so much. We're happy to hear you enjoyed the video!
sscchhooll cant say school whith out saying cool
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You forgot one blah.
he is a nerd
Like me