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Wil Mara
William P. "Wil" Mara (born 1966)"Wil Mara." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Gale, 2014. Retrieved via ''Gale In Context: Biography'' database, 2019-10-21. is an American author of more than a hundred books, . October 2013. Wil Mara (wilmara.com). Retrieved 2015-09-28. covering a variety of topics and genres, both fiction and non-fiction. A prolific author of children's literature, children's books, including numerous biographies for young readers, he has also written seven novels for adults. Work Since the mid 1990s, Mara has written scores of books for children and young adults, published mainly by Capstone Publishers, Capstone Press, Scholastic Corporation, Children's Press, Marshall Cavendish, and Cherry Lake. The genres and topics range from explanatory science books, and explorations of activities or places, to histories and biographie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genre
Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria, yet genres can be aesthetic, rhetorical, communicative, or functional. Genres form by conventions that change over time as cultures invent new genres and discontinue the use of old ones. Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. Stand-alone texts, works, or pieces of communication may have individual styles, but genres are amalgams of these texts based on agreed-upon or socially inferred conventions. Some genres may have rigid, strictly adhered-to guidelines, while others may show great flexibility. Genre began as an absolute classification system for ancient Greek literature, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
