{"id":15594,"date":"2019-04-22T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/?p=15594"},"modified":"2020-11-28T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T22:46:30","slug":"the-meaning-of-literary-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/the-meaning-of-literary-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of literary genre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Margaret Atwood is an example of peer or reader pressure in telling you to which genre your book belongs\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201cIf it is realistic or plausible, then it is not science fiction.\u201d she explained. (http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/5847421\/if-it-is-realistic-or-plausible-then-it-is-not-science-fiction<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize for Literature winner in 2015 (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Svetlana_Alexievich<\/a>)\u00a0, represents a different attempt to redefine not only literary genre, but to expand the definition of literature previously given by the Nobel Prize committee to nonfiction. \u00ab\u00a0The material that\u00a0she’s offering us – she’s actually\u00a0devised a new kind of\u00a0literary genre – that speaks to her achievement,\u00a0\u00bb said Sara Danius, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.<\/p>\n

How much it really matters on which shelf people place your book?<\/p>\n

 
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