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literary genre

category of literary composition
Class type of: art genre Q223393

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
type of genre, sub-set of literature[3]
Subclass of
art genre
Part of
narrative mode[4]
Facet of
literature[7]
Described by source
Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[8]
Different from
literary form, literary mode, literary subgenre, genre fiction, literary style, type of literary work, type of book[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
Has characteristic
tone, literary technique, theme, mood[10][11][12][13]
Has list
list of writing genres[21]
Has part(s)
epic literary genre, lyric poetry genre[5][6]
Is metaclass for
literary work, literature[24][25]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
P14541
3KTKpr[26]
Studied by
genology[22]
Topic has template
Template:Infobox literary genre[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en writing genre en book genre en literary genre en literature genre ar نوع أدبي ar نوع من الكتب cs literární žánr da litteraturgenre de Literaturgenre de Genos de Literaturgattung de Genre de Textart de Textgattung de literarische Gattungen de literarisches Genre de Gattung de Textsorte de literarische Gattung de Genus
🔖 Identifiers · 28
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85077490
GND ID
4074285-4
OpenAlex ID
C2776001163
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Wall Poem Webcam Quarantaine.jpg ↗
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/673
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
3051
BNCF Thesaurus ID
1948
BabelNet ID
16136963n
Bashenc.online ID
95907
Concise Literary Encyclopedia ID
2-9141
Dewey Decimal Classification
808.81-808.88
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
223089
Show all 28 identifiers +16
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/genre-literature
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
genres-litteraires, genres-litteraires-notion-d
Freebase ID
/m/02bm2p
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
literary-genres, literary-form
KBpedia ID
LiteraryGenre
Larousse ID
divers/genres_et_registres_littéraires/184106, divers/genre_littéraire/55048
Lille norske leksikon ID
sjanger_-_litteratur
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2776001163
Museum-digital tag ID
40289
NL CR AUT ID
ph122406
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX525948
Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
2819
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtUE3nKRRnjv
SVKKL authority ID
h0007464-literarni-zanry
Topic's main category
Category:Literary genres
Wellcome Collection concept ID
pmpmzx77

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🔗 Connections
Examples 549
proverb, theology, comic, biography, short story, comedy, legend, fairy tale +541 more
Has characteristic 4
theme, literary technique, tone, mood
← Category combines topics 4
Category:Literature by genre, Category:Literary works by genre, Category:Crime fiction writers by nationality, Category:Chinese literary genres
← Genre 4
Simone Schwarz-Bart, Pilar Quintana, Liz Moore, Viktor Likhonosov
Subtypes 3
creation myth, short story collection, occasional poetry
Different from 2
genre fiction, literary mode
Is metaclass for 2
literature, literary work
← Has characteristic 2
literature, palm-leaf manuscript
Facet of 1
literature
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Studied by 1
genology
Topic has template 1
Template:Infobox literary genre
Topic's main category 1
Category:Literary genres
← Category contains 1
Category:Detective fiction
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Literary genres
← Depicts 1
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
← Different from 1
literary mode
← Facet of 1
tone
← Is the study of 1
genology
← Main subject 1
Surfacing
← Template has topic 1
Template:Infobox literary genre
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Summary

literary genre is a type of genre[1]. It is a type of art genre[2].

Related Entities

children's literature literary work prosopography theology young adult literature

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3KTKpr
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||sw, pt */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 18w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford Classical Dictionary ID → 2819
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford Classical Dictionary ID: 2819, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285057|genre (#107285057)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical "
  3. 18w ago · Infovarius · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of genre, sub-set of literature
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: type of genre"
  4. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Has part(s) → epic literary genre, lyric poetry genre
    Subclass of → art genre
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox literary genre
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0007464-literarni-zanry, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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