1832

Journal of Cultural Analytics

2371-4549

Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University

Website: Journal of Cultural Analytics

11061

10.22148/16.005

Article

The Life Cycles of Genres

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8960-1846

Underwood

Ted

23 5 2016

2017

2 2

NovelTM Special Issue on Genre

11061

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The concept of genre is as old as literary theory itself, but centuries of debate haven’t produced much consensus on the topic. Part of the reason is that genre looks like a different thing at different points in the life of a text.

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