2. Enforcing the concepts
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Johan F. Hoorn
Abstract
Putting a genre label on a product of fiction is convenient to bypass the difficulties in the fiction-reality discussion. You can stop thinking because the label says what it is and you know what to expect. Genre helps to reinforce your concepts and classifications. However, the genre discussion is a mine field of its own. There is quite some confusion about the epistemic meaning of ‘reality soap,’ ‘social realism,’ or ‘virtual reality.’ This chapter treats a number of issues in genre theory such as the dynamics of genre, its pragmatic use, and its relation to schemata and cognitive scripts. In addition, it presents a reality-based genre taxonomy to overcome the inconsistencies of individual genre labels and incorporates this taxonomy into the fiction-reality framework.
Abstract
Putting a genre label on a product of fiction is convenient to bypass the difficulties in the fiction-reality discussion. You can stop thinking because the label says what it is and you know what to expect. Genre helps to reinforce your concepts and classifications. However, the genre discussion is a mine field of its own. There is quite some confusion about the epistemic meaning of ‘reality soap,’ ‘social realism,’ or ‘virtual reality.’ This chapter treats a number of issues in genre theory such as the dynamics of genre, its pragmatic use, and its relation to schemata and cognitive scripts. In addition, it presents a reality-based genre taxonomy to overcome the inconsistencies of individual genre labels and incorporates this taxonomy into the fiction-reality framework.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. The reality-fiction friction 17
- 2. Enforcing the concepts 53
- 3. Derailing the concepts 75
- 4. Illusions and deviation tolerance 125
- 5. Beyond realism 155
- 6. Epistemics of the Virtual 187
- Take – Make 205
- References 207
- List of referenced figures 221
- Index 229
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. The reality-fiction friction 17
- 2. Enforcing the concepts 53
- 3. Derailing the concepts 75
- 4. Illusions and deviation tolerance 125
- 5. Beyond realism 155
- 6. Epistemics of the Virtual 187
- Take – Make 205
- References 207
- List of referenced figures 221
- Index 229
