Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas's subtropical bildungsroman — told through theater and dance — is perceptive and original, no small feat for an angsty and ancient genre (1 35).
Then he revamped a lingering idea: to portray a suburban American family and cloak the story in the details of an ancient genre — the gangster film.
It was on the Amiga that burgeoning Dundee studio DMA released Lemmings, its ridiculously compelling platform puzzler that introduced inspired sandbox game mechanics to the ancient genre.
Like his old friend Zhang Yimou, the other international star to emerge from China's "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers, Mr. Chen has rediscovered the ancient genre known as wuxia, which combines tales of doomed love with feats of martial (and cinematic) bravura.
It is therefore perhaps better to classify these overviews in Cicero and Diogenes Laërtius as belonging with an ancient genre which we may view as a sub-species of doxography, namely the (largely lost) literature Peri Haireseôn ('On Schools'), which deals with philosophical, or medical, schools and eventually may include arguments contra the position of a particular hairesis ('school'school
Some suggest the story is to be read as comedy with carnival like, burlesque quality to the ancient genre.
When you think about it, some of these people do write histories of themselves and in that pursuit, a few of them have kept up the vitality of an ancient genre: criminal autobiography.
Satire, an ancient genre that uses humor to reveal the perceived weaknesses of a person, idea, or belief, should be a welcome addition to any public debate -- particularly if it is humorous more than bitter or mean-spirited.
The Satyricon, or Satyricon liber ("Book of Satyrlike Adventures"), is a comic, picaresque novel that is related to several ancient literary genres.
When you're talking B.C.-old -- as in the ancient Greek genre known to specialists as the Old Comedy and exemplified by the plays of Aristophanes -- the effort to resuscitate arcane jokes isn't always worth the trouble.
