Archive for the ‘Genres’ Category
In November 2006, O.J. Simpson attempted to release ‘If I Did It’ – a book in which he details a purportedly hypothetical account of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. Read the rest of this entry »
Candace Smith was seven years old when her father explained her mother had run away with another man, before loading a big barrel into his pickup truck and driving far out of state to her grandparents’ house. If never even occurred to her to ask why the bathroom would smashed to pieces and drenched in blood…
from thebookshelfmo.com
Although these days there seem to be almost as many genres within art than individual pieces, the first of all genres actually predate the Hellenic era. Even the plays of Sophocles were defined primarily as tragedy, although he was known to write the occasional comedy as well . Nowadays, genres are not limited to plays or even to fictional novels; everything from movies and comic books to poetry and works of non-fiction have their own genres, although some of these are harder to define because they fall into too many different categories.
