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Example sentences for: genre

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Let us begin with the act of exuberance that defines the genre:
Avedon has done much to revive the portrait as a central genre of photographic art.
"Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...
In Time , Richard Schickel calls the genre structure a pretext for a "surreal essay" on the Gulf War, and he might be right.
Some reviews praise the book, which was nominated for a National Book Award, for sidestepping the clichés of the genre.