If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world.

Another occasionally used term for the genre is " allohistory " ( literally " other history ").

The battle between the Athenians and Amazons is often commemorated in an entire genre of art, amazonomachy, in marble bas-reliefs such as from the Parthenon or the sculptures of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays.

The question regarding the genre of Acts is complicated by the fact that it was written by the same author as the Gospel of Luke.

In contrast with this Greek-Western aesthetic taste is the genre of the grotesque.

At the start of the game, it has survived over 10 years in complete isolation from the rest of the world and is an example of an arcology in cyberpunk genre.

From 1598 – 1600 is a triple Portrait, now in Naples, an example of genre painting.

He differs from those in his genre as he is known to reflect his own interests and those of his generation.

Featuring vividly outlandish characters, bizarre situations, and equal parts suspense, slapstick, irony, satire, black humor and biting social commentary, Li ' l Abner is considered a classic of the genre.

A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of " fish out of water " themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS.

The first, in D major, known as the Ghost, is one of his best known works in the genre ( rivaled only by the Archduke Trio ).

A special genre is scrimshaw.

The word " apocalypse " is also used for other works of a similar nature in the literary genre of apocalyptic literature.

The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

The language used by this approach is primarily negative, and the tathāgatagarbha genre of sutras can be seen as an attempt to state orthodox Buddhist teachings of dependent origination using positive language instead, to prevent people from being turned away from Buddhism by a false impression of nihilism.

The Latin American romantic ballad is a genre on it self among other Latin American musical styles.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

The general semantics concept " non-Aristotelian logic ", influenced the science fiction of the most prolific, best selling, influential authors of the genre during its flowering and height.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

This had been the most important writing that Alexander had claimed, and had been the earliest in genre.

During this decade Mozart composed his most famous operas, his six late symphonies which helped to redefine the genre, and a string of piano concerti which still stand at the pinnacle of these forms.

The series of fighting games are among the most popular in their genre, and have sold over 30 million units.

The comedy genre can be considered the oldest film genre ( and one of the most prolific and popular ).

The genre dates from the silent era, and the most famous examples of this type of film would be those produced by Monty Python.

Sci-fi comedy films, like most hybrid genre of comedy use the elements of science fiction films to over the top extremes and exaggerated science fiction stereotypical characters.

Smith's most celebrated short story is his first-published, " Scanners Live in Vain ", which led many of its earliest readers to assume that " Cordwainer Smith " was a new pen name for one of the established giants of the genre.

Female writers constituted a major portion of notable Golden Age writers, including Agatha Christie, the most famous of the Golden Age writers, and among the most famous authors of any genre, of all time.

Perhaps the most clearly formulaic plots characterize the romantic comedy genre ; in a book or film labeled as such, viewers already know its most basic central plot, including to some extent the ending.

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.

The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ), featuring Clint Eastwood and scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West.

Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving ; the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed " noir fiction ".

In video games, the adventure genre has most frequently given rise to the use of false documents to create a sense of immersion.

His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis ( the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release ) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic precursor to the film noir genre.

Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

Perhaps the most outstanding example of this genre is Leabhar na nGenealach / The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ( d. 1671 ), published in 2004.

It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as " the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood.

By the Victorian era Gothic had ceased to be the dominant genre and was dismissed by most critics ( in fact the form's popularity as an established genre had already begun to erode with the success of the historical romance popularised by Sir Walter Scott ).