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What is the concept of genre?

The Concept of Genre and Its Characteristics, for example, Beghtol (2000) comments that "the word genre means "kind of"' or "sort of" and comes from the same Latin root as the word genus" (p.17). Toms affirms in Recognizing Digital Genre that "genre, derived primarily from literacy studies, explores the classification of texts. ... ...

What is a new genre?

Tzvetan Todorov argued that 'a new genre is always the transformation of one or several old genres' (cited in Swales 1990, 36). Each new work within a genre has the potential to influence changes within the genre or perhaps the emergence of new sub-genres (which may later blossom into fully-fledged genres).

Is genre an intertextual concept?

Katie Wales notes that 'genre is... an intertextual concept' (Wales 1989, 259). John Hartley suggests that 'we need to understand genre as a property of the rela- tions between texts' (O'Sullivan et al. 1994, 128).

Who invented genre?

The earliest recorded systems of genre in Western history can be traced back to Plato and Aristotle. Gérard Genette, a French literary theorist and author of The Architext, describes Plato as creating three Imitational genres: dramatic dialogue, pure narrative, and epic (a mixture of dialogue and narrative).