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[F. genre kind: see gender.]
1. a. Kind; sort; style.
1816Lady Morgan Flor. Macarthy (1818) IV. iii. 144 But what is the genre of character..which, if in true keeping to life and manners, should not be found to resemble any body? 1840T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 273 Two very remarkable men..but of entirely different genres.
b. spec. A particular style or category of works of art; esp. a type of literary work characterized by a particular form, style, or purpose.
1770C. Jenner Let. 5 May in Private Corr. D. Garrick (1831) I. 384 With regard to the genre, I am of opinion that an English audience will not relish it so well as a more characteristic kind of comedy. 1790A. Young Jrnl. 15 Jan. in Travels (1892) i. 301 It is a genre little interesting when the works of the great Italian artists are at hand. 1843Thackeray Misc. Ess. (1885) 23 If..some of our newspapers are..inclined to treat for a story in this genre. 1880S. Lanier Sci. Eng. Verse viii. 245 The prodigious wealth of our language in beautiful works of this genre. 1856Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 84 In every genre of writing it [sc. wit] preserves a man from sinking into the genre ennuyeux. 1882G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Fr. Lit. 50 A better notion of the genre may perhaps be obtained from a short view of the subjects of some of the principal of those Fabliaux whose subjects are capable of description. 1967Radio Times 13 Apr. 10/5 Laike Moussike, the new genre which in the last eight years has given a new impetus..to Greek popular music.
2. a. A style of painting in which scenes and subjects of ordinary life are depicted.
1861C. M. Yonge Young Step-Mother xvii. 232 ‘I used to be very fond of drawing.’ ‘Genre is my style.’ 1873Ouida Pascarel I. 66 It [a picture] was a pretty little bit of genre. 1885Athenæum 12 Sept. 341/3 It [a picture] is a piece of genre, a capital study of colour. 1897Mag. Art Sept. 246 The realism which induced Quintijn Massijs to paint genre was the development of the spirit of the age.
b. attrib., as genre-painting, etc. Also transf., of music and literature.
1849Willmott Jrnl. Summer in Country 7 June 86 His apartments are crowded with rubbish, but he hangs some little genre piece in the corner. 1849Art Jrnl. XI. 59/3 This picture is certainly one of the masterpieces of the English school of genre painting. Ibid. 108/1 Dietz, a genre-painter of merit. 1861Times 16 Oct., Those vulgarisms of blue, red, and yellow which many of our own genre painters suppose to be telling colour. 1879Fothergill Probation i. xix. 193 A discriminating taste in the matter of genre paintings. 1885E. C. Stedman Poets Amer. iv. 98 Just as we call those genre canvases, whereon are painted idyls of the fireside, the roadside, and the farm, pictures of ‘real life.’ 1920G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 310 It would be so much easier if Cockaigne were genre music, with the Westminster chimes, snatches of Yip-i-addy, and a march of the costermongers to Covent Garden. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 406/3 The story settles down for a time into the methods of a genre novel of Shropshire life. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 200 They are..satirical genre pieces—over in a flash, but unerringly pinning down some particular aspect of popular music, whether foxtrot, tango or tarantella. 1937Burlington Mag. Sept. 139/1 Frans Hals's genre-pictures. 1959Times 13 Jan. 3/3 All three are genre-portrait groups. |