I very much enjoy the idea of referring to or categorizing a text into a genre using its intended and received purpose, rather than it’s form or style, as mentioned in Myers’ article. This is, in part, an aspect of the definition of genre anyway, but I enjoy the emphasis on intent and reception, which…
A genre is a form of communication that arises in response to a particular rhetorical situation. In “What is a blog? What is a wiki?” Greg Myers defines genre as “types of texts that share certain features because their users share certain purposes” (15) and notes that genres appear and disappear in response to the needs of…
Like most of the class, my definition of genre was far narrower before we began studying it in more depth. As a writer and avid reader, I would typically define genre in terms of ‘genre fiction’ such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, romance, etc., or the broader genres we talk about in creative writing (fiction,…
Concerning the definition of genre, most of us have turned to one or another class reading for a quote. For my own part, I really like Dirk’s simple explanation of genre conventions—before writing his essay, he says that he found other examples of essays written for students and “looked for common features” (250). He also…
I’m going to be honest and admit that I did in fact mess up my last blog post by using the wrong prompt. So bare with me as I once again talk cover the wonderful world of Genre one more time. In my last blog post I talked about the history of japan and how…
Growing up in a family of avid moviegoers as well as hungry readers, my understanding of genre started when I was very young. We would watch the superhero save the day, serial killers such as Leatherface dismember bodies, and spaceships travel the stars to save the universe. This goes for what we were reading as…
It’s interesting to think about the fact that the word “genre” has evolved over the years. Originally, it comes from both of/either a French word for “a kind,” or the English word “gender,” according to dictionary.com’s origin feature. As Kerry Dirk says in the essay, Navigating Genres, the word genre “used to have a bad…
In the past, genre was simple and easy for me to define. It was nothing more than a word to represent categories for books: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, genre fiction, etc., and music: rock, pop, metal, country, etc. However true that definition may be, it does not even begin to cover the entirety of the meaning…
Just as Christina mentioned in her post, I previously associated the term ‘genre’ solely with categories for books and movies. This past week’s readings have redefined genre for me as a set of guidelines/expectations associated with and formed by the creation of repeated styles of content. In connection with the saying, “imitation is the best…
It’s one of the common questions in Creative Writing—what’s your genre? Without question, I answer fiction. When pressed, I might say realistic fiction, or novels, short stories—more rarely does the word genre get deliberation on what it means in itself. In the articles we have read recently, there have been a number of definitions offered,…