: Re: What determines genre? Is the "genre" a piece of fiction belongs to determined by the author, or by the editor and publishing house? Is there an established definition for each genre, or is

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quoting wikipedia:

Genre ... "kind" or "sort", from
Latin: genus (stem gener-), Greek:
genos, γένος) is the term for any
category of literature, as well as
various other forms of art or culture
e.g. music, based on some loose set of
stylistic criteria. Genres are formed
by conventions that change over time
as new genres are invented and the use
of old ones are discontinued. Often,
works fit into multiple genres by way
of borrowing and recombining these
conventions.

So genres evolve as they come and go, and based on current cultural state - we could say there is a current established definition.

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