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Actually, I suspect it comes down to the idea that you can't have genres at all unless you have conventions but if there's a coherent line of argument here, it is gelling more slowly than my "why polyamory is like SPI's _The Campaigns of North Africa_" idea.
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Date: 2005-03-07 07:30 pm (UTC)There are obvious flaws -- one person's "Just like Georgette Heyer" is another's "Obvious Piece of Tripe". Similarly, I think Laurell K. Hamilton and Charlaine Harris and MaryJanice Davidson (heroines Anita Blake, Sookie Stackhouse, and Betsy Taylor, respectively) are aiming at the same set of readers, yet one is shelved in either SF or horror, one in mystery, and one in romance. I still believe that genre solves as many problems as it causes.
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Date: 2005-03-07 07:33 pm (UTC)Mind you, some of the same people are very fond of traditional poetry, say, which has strict conventions beyond any genre of literature (about form, not so much content).
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Date: 2005-03-07 08:08 pm (UTC)MAO
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Date: 2005-03-07 08:22 pm (UTC)Also, check out Jay Lake's Handy Guide to Genre Distinctions.
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