GEN:Genre or literary form

[ktclemen <ktclemen@UNCG.EDU>]

I am collaborating on a lesson on genre, and decided to scan
the archives for ideas.  I discovered a past debate as to what
genre really described.  One side felt a genre was poetry, fiction,
non-fiction, etc.  The other side believed that it was referring
to the types of fiction such as science fiction, fantasy, etc.
 I could not find any definitive answer to this debate.  My question
is: Is poetry, fiction, non-fiction, etc better referred to as
a literary form and genre refers to the types of fiction?

Thanks for your assistance.

Kevin Clement
MLIS graduate student
University of North Carolina
Greensboro, NC
ktclemen@uncg.edu
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