Genre is, to my mind, the delin?eation of a bound?ary between and around lit?er?ary works deter?mined by the intellect?s instinct for per?ceiv?ing integri?tas and con?so?nan?tia, which I would do well to let James Joyce explain:
? In order to see that bas?ket, said Stephen, your mind first of all sep?a?rates the bas?ket from the rest of the vis?i?ble uni?verse which is not the bas?ket. The first phase of appre?hen?sion is the bound?ing line drawn about the object to be apprehended?selfbounded and self?con?tained upon the immea?sur?able back?ground of space or time which is not it. You appre?hend it as one thing. You see it as one whole. You appre?hend its whole?ness. That is integri?tas.
? Then, said Stephen, you pass from point to point, led by its for?mal lines; you appre?hend it as bal?anced part against part within its lim?its; you feel the rhythm of its struc?ture? You appre?hend it as com?plex, mul?ti?ple, divis?i?ble, sep?a?ra?ble, made up of its parts, the results of its parts and their sum, har?mo?nious. That is con?so?nan?tia.
A genre is bounded, con?tained, and sep?a?rated from the gen?res that are, indeed, not it; at the same time, a genre con?tains within it a har?mony of mul?ti?vari?ate works. The con?cept of genre is spa?tial, mea?sured in terms of within or with?out, and it defines an exist?ing dimen?sion of any lit?er?ary?work.
The prob?lem with the spa?tial def?i?n?i?tion of genre is that it is sta?tic; it neglects the genre?s dynamism. If the con?so?nan?tia is har?mony of mul?ti?vari?ate works, dynamism is the way in which a new work fig?ures into that song. With dynamism, the bound?aries of a genre become expres?sions of the con?cep?tual forces that emanate from indi?vid?ual works, and they are always sub?ject to?flux.
But how does one reshape the bound?ary lines? How does one write the work that moves the bor?der of an exist?ing genre? In short, how does a writer work within a genre at the same time as one goes beyond it?
Because it is only through the answer to this ques?tion that a writer will make her?mark.
Source: http://www.fluidimagination.com/writing-theories/fluid-imaginalphabet-g-is-for-genre
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