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    Genres are categories of artistic works defined by conventions that change over time. The document outlines the main genres throughout history, including epic, tragedy, and comedy in the Classical age; ballads, morality plays, and miracle plays in the Middle ages; and the evolution of genres like novels, poetry, and plays in the Elizabethan, Neo-classical, Romantic, and Modern eras as literary conventions responded to sociocultural changes.

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    Genres are categories of artistic works defined by conventions that change over time. The document outlines the main genres throughout history, including epic, tragedy, and comedy in the Classical age; ballads, morality plays, and miracle plays in the Middle ages; and the evolution of genres like novels, poetry, and plays in the Elizabethan, Neo-classical, Romantic, and Modern eras as literary conventions responded to sociocultural changes.

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    GENRE

    WHAT IS GENRE?
    • Genre is a French word which means type, kind or category.
    • It is pronounced as “Jon-Dra”
    • Genres are formed by conventions that change over the time.
    CLASSIFICATION OF GENRE
    • Genre has considered its principle task to divide the world of literature into types and the
    naming of those types.
    • There are 4 main genres i.e. Literary, film and television, video games, and music genres.
    • These genres are further divided into sub genres like action, adventure, comedy, crime,
    fantasy, horror etc.
    GENRE ANALYSIS
    • Genre analysis means the way a textual discourse is analyzed and interpreted.
    HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF GENRE
    ANALYSIS
    • Classical age
    • Middle age
    • Elizabethan age
    • Neo-classical age
    • Modern age
    CLASSICAL AGE
    • Running from 1200BCE TO 455CE
    • The classical period was home to the great works of ancient Greece and Rome
    • The main genres at that time were
     Epic
     Tragedy
     Comedy
     Lyrical poetry
    MIDDLE AGE
    • It started from 500 AD till late 15 th century
    • It is also called medieval age
    • At this age there was an expansion in the genres of poetry ad drama, like:
     Ballads
     Morality plays
     Miracle plays
    • Love poetry was condemned at this age
    ELIZABETHAN AGE
    • It started from 1558 till 1603
    • It is called the golden age of England
    • This age included
     Marlow
     Shakespeare
     Sir Philip Sydney
     Francis Bacon
    • Poetry like sonnets, romantic epic, love poems etc. were added to the previous genre
    classification like tragical comedy, romantic comedy, comical tragedies, historical plays etc.
    NEO-CLASSICAL AGE
    • This age is between 1660 and 1798
    • This time period is broken down into 3 parts
     Restoration period
     Augustan period
     Age of Johnson
    • Writers of Neo-classical age tried to imitate the style of Roman and Greeks.
    • Different genres emerged due to socio-cultural change in society.
    • Alexander pope introduced mock epic poetry, descriptive poetry, narrative poetry & satirical
    poems.
    • Henry Fielding & Jane Austin popularized fiction writing
    • Dr. Samuel Johnson generated a new type of criticism.
    ROMANTIC AGE
    • Also known as romanticism & was from the period of 1800 to 1850
    • William Wordsworth brought out the genre of sonnets, ballads, romantic epic and odes.
    • William Blake focused on divine poetry.
    • Jane Austin introduced social novels of lower middle class like Emma.
    MODERN AGE
    • This started from 1900 till 1950
    • In modern age social, comical, satirical and ironic plays and a new type of poetry
    including classical and romantic style were published.
    • The most important was the evolution of science fiction.
    CONCLUSION
    • Genre underwent various changes because of their close relationship with socio cultural
    conventions.

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