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An example of didacticism in music is the chant Ut queant laxis, which was used by Guido of Arezzo to teach solfege syllables. Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overburdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment ...
It included realistic – sometimes sordid or violent – depictions of contemporary everyday life, especially the life of the lower classes. In France in addition to melodramas , popular and bourgeois theater in the mid-century turned to realism in the "well-made" bourgeois farces of Eugène Marin Labiche and the moral dramas of Émile Augier .
No-Frills Books were a series of books published in 1981. The books in the series were titled after their genres, Western , Science Fiction , Romance , and Mystery . Each contained a list of "ingredients" on the front cover. [ 1 ]
Arch Oboler (December 7, 1907 – March 19, 1987) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director who was active in radio, films, theater, and television.
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
Rereleased box cover of the computer game. The book was adapted into a computer game by Living Books in 1992. [3] It was later turned into a smartphone app in 2012. [4] It is the first of five Arthur books to be adapted into a computer game, and the second game released from the Living Books series.
See the best non-fiction books coming out in 2024. These new non-fiction reads can teach you something new, and maybe even change your life. 35 Non-Fiction Books We’re Excited to Read in 2024
One realistic fiction sub-genre is historical fiction, centered around true major events and time periods in the past. [4] The attempt to make stories feel faithful to reality or to more objectively describe details, and the 19th-century artistic movement that began to vigorously promote this approach, is called "literary realism", which ...