Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.

This genre soon also became an important political tool, although in most cases directors were able to keep a distinguishing barrier between art and politics.

Graffiti may also express underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based upon spray paint graffiti styles.

In 1990, he returned to the Cold War political thriller genre with The Fourth War with Roy Scheider ( with whom Frankenheimer had worked previously on 52 Pick-Up ) as a loose cannon Army colonel drawn into a dangerous personal war with a Russian officer.

His plot lines frequently involved the application of social and political issues in a speculative manner appropriate to the science fiction genre.

The ministry collected and published political poetry of the revolutionary period, known as testimonial narrative, a form of literary genre that recorded the experiences of individuals in the course of the revolution.

Politics, gender, and genre: the political thought of Christine de Pizan.

This literary genre was often used as ecclesiastic and political propaganda.

This oppression ironically created a major boom in popularity for the genre, which became associated with political resistance and rebellion.

The films released during this period were: Feet First, with a similar scenario to Safety Last which found him clinging to a skyscraper at the climax ; Movie Crazy with Constance Cummings ; The Cat's-Paw, which was a dark political comedy and a big departure for Lloyd ; and The Milky Way, which was Lloyd's only attempt at the fashionable genre of the screwball comedy film.

In writing the Homage he worked through his anxieties of whether the epic was compatible with modernity or worth writing at all, given the political and social statement of the genre.

After the assassination of President Kennedy, the political thriller and the paranoid thriller genre became very popular.

Qu You (, 1341 – 1427 ), courtesy name Zongji ( 宗吉 ) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai ( 存齋, " Reading Studio of Existence "), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming Dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing Dynasty.

Turtledove approaches the novels ' science fiction scenario with less of a focus on the technological and fantasy elements typically associated with the genre and shows greater concern for the role of more mundane affairs such as the political repercussions of an alliance between the Allied and Axis powers, the impact the presence of alien creatures has on human society, and the ways in which warfare is paradoxically a hindrance to civilization and simultaneously a catalyst for the progress of civilization.

The nouvelles and novels of decadent writers such as Prudenci Bertrana ( whose highly controversial Josafat involved a demented priest who ends up killing a prostitute ), Caterina Albert ( also known as Víctor Catala ), author of bloody, expressionistic tales of rural violence, opposed to the idealisation of nature propugned by Catalan Romantics, or Raimon Casellas have been highly influential upon later Catalan narrative, essentially recovering a genre that had been lost due to political causes since the end of the Middle Ages.

The lyrical expression of cultural identity and addressing Pakistan's political and social problems is vital in making hip hop a popular growing genre.

This piece is widely considered a pioneering work within the genre of the modern political cartoon.

Ball's departure from the mystery genre was a bestselling what-if political thriller The First Team, published in September 1971.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the genre of political thrillers born of the Cold War included writers such as Allen Drury ( Advise and Consent, Fletcher Knebel ( Seven Days in May ), and Edwin Corley ( The Jesus Factor ).

More than being particularly clever genre works, however, all 26 books were written in a style nearly always instantly recognizable as Condon's, while their focus was almost always obsessively directed at monetary greed and political corruption.

Secular painting became far more common from the Renaissance, and developed its own traditions and conventions of iconography, in history painting, which includes mythologies, portraits, genre scenes, and even landscapes, not to mention modern media and genres like photography, cinema, political cartoons, comic books and anime.

Ayerdhal, who holds the genre of science fiction in the highest regard, not only as a tool for learning but as tool for the expression of one's imagination and political inspirations, has stated several reasons for why he believes French science-fiction has sold badly over the years.

Techno-thrillers are a hybrid genre, drawing subject matter generally from spy thrillers, war novels, and political narratives, and including a disproportionate amount ( relative to other genres ) of technical detail on its subject matter ; only science fiction tends towards a comparable level of supporting detail on the technical side.

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

Pop music is generally thought of as a genre which is commercially recorded and desires to have a mass audience appeal.

A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation, science fiction is not often ( enough ) thought of as a genre related to lyric poetry.

Seeing the success of how television, in its early years, allowed movie studios to unload a backlog of short films thought unmarketable, the Stooge films seemed perfect for the burgeoning genre.

Miller ends her article with the thought that genres are partly rhetorical education through her statement, " as a recurrent, significant action, a genre embodies an aspect of cultural rationality " ( Miller 165 ).

While some commentators thought the book looked backwards to Victorian and Edwardian boarding school stories, others thought it placed the genre firmly in the modern world by featuring contemporary ethical and social issues.

It was also one of the few Western films to receive critical and commercial success in the 1970s at a time when the Western was thought to be dying as a major genre in Hollywood.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Akita took Metal Machine Music as a point of departure and further abstracted the noise aesthetic by freeing the sound from guitar based feedback alone, a development that is thought to have heralded noise music as genre.

The border, thought to represent human progression from a wild state to civilisation, depicts a variety of country pursuits set against a pastoral landscape, described as " perhaps the finest range of genre scenes to come down to us from Elizabethan times ".

While most jazz musicians and fans consider improvisation to be essential to the musical style, Whiteman thought the genre could be improved by orchestrating the best of it, with formal written arrangements.

As musicologist Hugh Macdonald wrote of Liszt's works in this genre, the intent was " to display the traditional logic of symphonic thought ;" that is, to display a comparable complexity in the interplay of musical themes and tonal ' landscape ' to those of the Romantic symphony.

Beecham's presentation of A Mass of Life at the Queen's Hall in June 1909 did not inspire Hans Haym, who had come from Elberfeld for the concert, though Beecham says that many professional and amateur musicians thought it " the most impressive and original achievement of its genre written in the last fifty years " Some reviewers, nevertheless, doubted the popular appeal of Delius's music, while others were more specifically hostile.

But while I thought that was cool, I wanted to take it to the next level and actually create a new genre by getting the actual dudes we were sampling into the studio to jam over hip hop beats with some of the top vocalists of the time.

The first songs traditionally referred to as bard songs are thought to be written in late 1930s and early 1940s, and the very existence of the genre is traditionally originated from the amateur activities of the Soviet intelligentsia, namely mass backpacking movement and the students ' song movement of 1950s and 1960s.

Finally, after another song from Nichols or Bentley, there was a situation comedy sketch worked up from the clichés of a literary or cinematic genre ; for example, later TIFH programmes included a sketch about restoration England, with Charles II, Nell Gwynne and the Puritan keeper of the Privy Purse (" anything TV can do, we can do later "); or a spoof spy story set on an international sleeper from London to Paris ("… as I moved through the train I gazed at a handsome film star, slumbering in his compartment, and a thought struck me — whether you're great or whether you're humble, when you sleep upright you dribble ").

Funny animals have been a staple of comics, and while they have traditionally been thought of as being for children, the underground had long made use of them for adult stories, notably in Robert Crumb's work ( such as Fritz the Cat ) which showed that the genre could " open up the way to a paradoxical narrative realism " that Maus would exploit.

It is thought that Sloane collaborated with Gernsback in originating the term scientifiction which was superseded by science fiction to describe this genre, as suggested in part by the first issue of Amazing Stories.

" Robert Mayer from Computer Games Magazine called System Shock 2 " a game that truly defies classification in a single genre ", and ensured that " the action is occasionally fast-paced, it's more often tactical, placing a premium on thought rather than on reflexes.

Many genre fans and film critics at the time thought that Jeff Goldblum's performance would receive a Best Actor Oscar nomination, but this did not come to pass.

Only Yesterday is significant among progressive anime films in that it explores a genre traditionally thought to be outside the realm of animated subjects.

The series can be thought of as Sega's main venture into the RPG genre, along with the other fantasy-RPG series, Phantasy Star.

Series editor Axel Alonso said, " We thought it would be interesting to play with the genre.