Genre Analysis and Adaptation

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Genre analysis and adaptation
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Introduction
Part One: Genre analysis exercise
What is a genre? Writers create or invent within genres and get invented by genres
themselves (Bawarshi 2003, p. 7). The genres give the writers a direction and help them achieve
a general purpose. Literature in a particular genre usually share a general purpose and is based on
a particular type of writing that is gets represented through its content, form, or style. Broadly
speaking, there are two major genres in literature, the fiction and nonfiction. These categories are
further divided into poetry, prose, drama that reflect upon the kind of literary work. The different
categories can be further categories based on the layout of the text, the style of writing and
content and theme. Thus, we have fantasy, horror, adventure, science fiction, romance as
common genres. It is essential to remember that there are no definite demarcations in genre
categories.
One notion defines genres as based on a set of common public goals and participatory
mechanisms among members and intercommunication. However, the definition fails to provide
any dynamism that could explain the change and development of given genres (Bex 2010, p. 7).
However, it did reflect that genres were social. Another definition of the genre looks at it as
categories of media products like film, television and radio programs and the regular contact
with the audience as stated by Hyerim (2018, p. 485). Thus, the genre positions writers and their
invention within specific social sites of action. The rhetorical activities allow one to get a deeper
understanding of the writer and his inventions (Bawarshi 2003, p. 32). The genre functions
within the broader social spheres and maintains specific relations of a field within these social
spheres. When one treats as a form, it divided it from the content as the content is placed within
the form of the genre. However, the container model is no longer approved as a more binding

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genre that treats the form, and the content is seen as a normalizing concept. The writers and
literature tend to break those generic constraints to capture the essence of writing.
Genre concept is useful to describe existing works, but the multifaceted genre labels carry
limited utility within the physical space of a library (Hyerim 2018, p. 497). However, the
multifaceted genre system enjoys more freedom within modern electronic indexing that points to
relevant results. The function of the genre is to elevate genre from a class to a site of action, and
many literary scholars look at genres as sites of action. The genres frame the conceptual
conditions within which literary writers and their activities function (Bawarshi 2003, p. 26).
When looking at anime as a genre, it should not be limited by narrow definitions, but understood
as a cultural phenomenon. The expanded concept of anime considers it as a medium and part of
media cultures, and it carries several unique characteristics (Hyerim 2018, p. 485). The anime
audience is mostly female adults, and narrative style of anime is based on unique themes like
sadness and terror.
Literacy genres and their sub-categories may seem to have sharp demarcations from each
other but what makes it complex are the inter-relations between different genres that make it
difficult to categorize a specific work within a particular genre. For example, fantasy, as a
literary genre carries a debatable position in literature and is used in different works of literature
that are not categorized as fantasy (Esberk 2014, p. 139). Although fantasy has developed as a
distinguished genre, different types of fantasy progressed in different periods, such as the science
fiction fantasy, magical fantasy, and horror fantasy. Still, the 'pure fantasy' is different from these
different poles of fantasy. The literary genres shape our experience with text and literature and
make it culturally meaningful. The institution of the genre both limits and enables literary
expression and should not be seen as typical and rigid forms of literary expression but as