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What's In A Genre?: The Relationship Between Reader And Text, Anabelle Mahoney
What's In A Genre?: The Relationship Between Reader And Text, Anabelle Mahoney
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The way in which literary genres are understood shapes how one reads and interacts with different texts. Genre expectations affect both how individuals choose texts to read, and then how those texts are understood. Therefore, labeling literature as a certain genre affects the relationship between writer and reader. Literary nonfiction is unlike most genres as it promises a certain truth to its readers. One cannot deviate too far from “the truth” in nonfiction writing and still fulfill the genre; the relationship a reader has with a text changes if it is not considered “true enough.” Author James Frey, who marketed …
Writing Disaster Wrt 3xxg, Jim Kinnie