Re: GEN:Genre or literary form

[D & P Wade <dpwade@POWERUP.COM.AU>]

Hi all,
Here in Queensland, Australia, the term 'genre' applies mainly to the
written form - i.e. recounts, instructions, expositions, etc.  Our English
syllabus is based on them.
Years ago, the term was used almost exclusively by teacher/librarians
referring to science fiction, fantasy, and so on.
In my use of the word, I preface it with 'written' or 'literary'.  No-one
seems to confuse them.
Trish Wade
Teacher/Librarian
Geebung State School,
Brisbane, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Noble <jon_p_noble@YAHOO.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Date: Saturday, September 04, 1999 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: GEN:Genre or literary form


>I
>
>--- ktclemen <ktclemen@UNCG.EDU> wrote:
>> 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?
>
>I have just tried for dictionaries (two US, one British  - the Shorter
>Oxford- and one Australian) all four had basically the same definition
>which encompases both uses of the term. They really are both correct
>but that is not very helpfull. I once checked a dictionary of literary
>terms which only gave the "literary form" definition, but I've always
>used the type of fiction definition whenever I've used the word. There
>are of course also sub-genres such as time travel as a sub- genre of
>science fiction or forensic novels as a sub- genre of the mysteries.
>There are also stories that belong in two genres such as historical
>detective stories (my favourites are Ellis Peters' Cadfael and Lindsay
>Davis' Falco)
>
>Jon Noble
>Teacher Librarian
>Glendale High School
>Glendale, NSW, Australia
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