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Originally Posted by jjblue1
Do you think we can consider this a stalemate?
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I think it is better we do, because our idea of literature and genre in itself are so inherently different that it might be pointless to fight about it.
The idea of an author who is tied by "rules of a genre" until a magical deus ex machina comes along and changes those rules is not really my understanding of making good literature it's how one makes marketable products.
I think a genre changes with every entry that is made and re-labelling everything that doesn't fit the genre only leads to more and more hideous word-chains in the genre category (like mystery-horror-teen angst-dramedy or so...).
But that's the problem with imposed labels...
In my oppinion there are no rules to any genre, people only apply them as they see fit based on their own preferences. For one maybe everything including too much bloodshed might be horror or everything where there is something mysterious might be mystery...others might disagree.