Genre

Genre

Established categories of literary works or other forms of art or entertainment that are based on some set of stylistic criteria or conventions.

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antihero

Literature; Genre

The antihero or antiheroine is a leading character in a film, book or play who lacks the traditional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, nobility, fortitude, moral goodness, and ...

antinovel

Literature; Genre

An antinovel is any experimental work of fiction that avoids the familiar conventions of the novel.

Apocalypticism is the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God's will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to ...

apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Literature; Genre

Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of human civilization. This apocalypse is typically portrayed as being due to a potentially existential ...

apologetics

Literature; Genre

Apologetics is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of information. Early Christian writers (c. 120–220) who defended their faith against critics and ...

apocrypha

Literature; Genre

Apocrypha are statements or claims that are of dubious authenticity. The word's origin is the medieval Latin adjective apocryphus, "secret, or non-canonical", from the Greek adjective ἀπόκρυφος ...

archenemy

Literature; Genre

An archenemy, archfoe, archvillain or nemesis (sometimes spelled arch-enemy, arch-foe or arch-villain originated around the mid-16th century) is the principal enemy of someone or something. In ...