Definition of Subgenres

1. Noun. (plural of subgenre) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subgenres

1. subgenre [n] - See also: subgenre

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subgenres

subfusks
subgame
subgames
subgap
subgelatinous
subgenera
subgeneration
subgenerations
subgeneric
subgenome
subgenomes
subgenomic
subgenre
subgenres (current term)
subgenual
subgenus
subgenus Azalea
subgenus Azaleastrum
subgenus Calliopsis
subgenus Chen
subgenus Pastor
subgenus Poinciana
subgenuses
subgiant
subgiants
subgingival
subgingivally
subglabrous

Literary usage of Subgenres

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plug Your Book: Online Book Marketing for Authors, Book Publicity Through by Steve Weber (2007)
"Likewise, at least a half-do/en subgenres are within what many people call "queer fiction." But you won't find subject headings for any of it in a library. ..."

2. The Maecenas and the Madrigalist: Patrons, Patronage, and the Origins of the by Anthony M. Cummings (2004)
"Among the subgenres of the early Cinquecento madrigal is the secular dialog, in which the voices alternate in antecedent-consequent fashion, in imitation of ..."

3. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"Even the emergence of genres and subgenres can be better understood if we consider the practice of literature in relation to the many forms of human ..."

4. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by Martha L. Brogan, Daphnée Rentfrow (2005)
"The report draws examples from major genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and prose nonfiction, but various subgenres are excluded, for example, ..."

5. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... multicultural crime novels refashion for their own purposes the mapping of urban space initiated by the two main twentieth-century subgenres of crime ..."

6. Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts : the by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (1998)
"In the late 1990s this diversification can be seen in a number of subgenres of which these are just a few: Regency Romances ("set in England between ..."

7. Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Creteby Kevin Glowacki, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan by Kevin Glowacki, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (2008)
"Sarcophagi show a more complicated picture, involving subgenres as well as changes over time: as was noted, in some subjects—such as biography or ..."

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