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    Genre Art

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    The Old Market Woman and A Goldsmith in His Shop: A Comparison in Context Genre art is used to depict scenes from everyday life. It focuses on the intimate and elevates the personal, giving insights into the lives of everyday people. From these works of art, such as The Old Market Woman and A Goldsmith in his Shop, we can infer a great many things about the cultures in which they were created and what these cultures may have shared. The Old Market Woman is a Roman recreation of a Greek sculpture

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    Melodrama as a Genre

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    In his essay ‘Melodrama and Tears’, Steve Neale proposes the melodrama as a genre emerged to occupy the space between tragedy and comedy. Neale quotes Denis Diderot and identifies melodrama as a primarily ‘touching’ art form, which has the ability to move audiences and induce physical reactions like crying. Neale discusses Diderot’s quote ‘the pleasure of being touched and giving way to tears’ as an important part of the melodramatic mode. Neale continues to illustrate in his essay how the tricks

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    The Genre Of Candide

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    Candide Genre The genre of the Candide novel is that it shows the philosophy and parody. The novel shows also the laughter we could have while reading the novel. The novel highlighted the drama and the character on it. Since the novel is known for serving hilarious event, it has been known because of the understated nature that Voltaire has performed in the novel. Voltaire made jokes on the novel which captures the interest among the reader. The novel of the Candide gave the introduction through

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    In literature, there are genres. Two main genres are fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is a work of art that is not real or based on the facts. “‘Fiction’ refers to literature created from the imagination” (“What is the difference…?”). It can explain a story in a different point of view, maybe in a way that is out of the norm. Fiction is basically just nonfiction in an exaggerated way. Though fiction may not be based on the facts, it can still resemblance a sense of real life events. “Fiction may base

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    Galavant Genre

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    Everybody’s probably twiddling their thumbs right now in anticipation of the return of Galavant season 3 or a Galavant musical. But even though most of the cast, crew, producers, writers and composers are ready to come back, there is one that probably would not. Joshua Sasse is one big reason as to why Galavant season 3 is not going to happen. When it takes its final swan song, it really takes the “final” swan song. And its viewers are not going to get its happily ever after because the titular

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    focusing on the aspects of genre theory and irony, Gass argues that it is the multiple genre expectations that give Moll the reputation of being deep and complex, which leads to her controversial character. He uses historical context to show how Moll can be seen as a villain, but continues to argue that it is primarily the expectations brought on by genre theory that make people see her as a villain, based on those certain expectations. Gass’ interpretation using genre theory analysis, irony, and

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    and Horner define genre characteristics as,”setting, aims, relations to other genres, medium, and effect on self and life”(Lu & Horner 69). They also discuss “tinkering” with genre itself. Genre is the base model which is expected to take a particular form. For example in the collection of writings, Little Miracles, Kept Promises, author Sandra Cisneros has eloquently expressed how the diversity of ideas & themes within the several writings can all be thought of as the single genre of prayers. One

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    mixture of genres such as the Spaghetti Western, the teenage romance, and the vampire genre. The clash of genres in this film brings out the idea of hybridity and duality, with the sounds and cinematography creating a sense of ambiguity, or the ‘in-between’. The underlying mix brings out a sense of horror for the overall feel of the film as it leaves audiences with a sense of fear and realisation that not everything is as it seems. The spaghetti western genre is a part of the mix of genres which provide

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    to express meanings (Bloor & Bloor, 1995). This project is two case studies of an EFL classroom that is based on Saudi Arabia with the intention of improving the academic writing concentrating on two persuasive genre writings, which are discussion and exposition genres. To do so, SFL is employed with its powerful analytical tools that are helpful in educational contexts. In particular, these analytical tools examine written language in the way sentences and clauses are organized as well

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    How auteur theory can be applied to the study of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Vertigo I will talk about how auteur theory can be applied to the study of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and vertigo. The term Auteur theory is the theory which states An auteur is a singular artist who controls all aspects of a collaborative creative work, a person equivalent to the author of a novel or a play. The term is commonly referenced to filmmakers or directors with a recognizable style or thematic preoccupation

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