What is Genre?
Genre is a class or catergory of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content or technique. For example in the music industry there are different genres such as Classical and Pop.
A text is classified in a genre through the identification of key elements (paradigms).
Paradigms may be grouped into the following:
Iconography- Main signs/symbols what you see or heard
Structure- The way a text is put together and the shape it takes
Themes- Issues and ideas it deals with
Narrative- Something formalic plots and structures, predicatbale situations, sequences, obstacles, conflics and resolutions
Identify- Similar types of characters (sometimes stereoptypes) roles personal qualities behaviour
No comments:
Post a Comment