sjangre
Sjangre (plural of sjanger) is the term used in Norwegian to refer to genres, categories that group artistic works by shared conventions, forms, and content. They help describe and organize literature, film, music, theatre, and other media. The concept originates in the idea that creative works follow recognizable patterns, such as narrative structure, tone, or subject matter. In literature, common sjangre include crime, romance, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and realism. In film and television, genres extend to action, thriller, horror, comedy, documentary, and animation, often combined or crossbred as hybrid sjangre. In music, genres such as classical, rock, pop, jazz, hip hop, and electronic reflect differences in performance practice, instrumentation, and audience expectations.
Subgenres refine the main categories, producing more specific conventions, for example canonical crime fiction (cozy, hardboiled),