"Genres are instances of repetition and difference" - Neale
"Difference is absolutely essential to the economy of genre" - Neale
"Any instance of genre will be necessarily different" - Todorov
Lacey considers that there are a 'repertoire of elements' that work together to suggest genre and that these are a useful framework to use for analysis.
Genre isn't fixed but is dynamic and changes over time.
no "rigid rules of inclusion or exclusion"- Gledhill
"Genre..are not desecrate systems, including a fixed number of listable items" - Gledhill
"It is difficult to make clear cut distinctions between one genre and another. Genres overlap, and their are mixed genres such as comedy thrillers" - Chandler
Burton suggests that each text in a given genre shares particular key elements to make up the generic formula - these include protagonists, stock characters, plots and stock, situations, icons background and decor, themes.
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