Genre is a style or category of art, music or literature.
Genre: Coming Of Age
Coming of age stories focus on the growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood.
In a coming of age story you expect to see the protagonists go through series of challenges or events that will make him/her realise a larger message and make the transition from youth to adult.
Genre Theorists
"Genres are instances of repetition and difference... difference is absolutely essential to the economy of Genre." (Neale, 1980)
It explains that all pieces of writing,even when they are in the same genre, are different in some way.
"An individual text within a genre rarely if ever has all of the characteristic features of the genre." (Fowler, 1989)
Stories can be classified under multiple genres.
Advantages Of Writing In A Genre
Texts From The Same Genre
Catcher In The Rye What Maisie Knew To Kill A Mockingbird That Was Then, This Is Now
J.D Salinger (1951) Henry James (1897) Harper Lee (1960) S.E Hinton (1971)
The novel deals with This book deals with family issues To Kill A Mockingbird explores Deals with the relationship between
finding an identity, and the influences parents going issues such as racial injustice, two brothers who work to provide
belonging and the way through issues have on their social classes,courage and their family with money as their mother is in
people perceive you. Children and how they deal compassion,gender roles and the hospital. When one begins to make lots
The character of Holden with it. The main character of the laws. The main protaginist of money selling drugs, the other calls the
goes through the typical Maisie is forced to mature when Scout and Jem Finch, brother police and he is taken away. Both of the
changes seen in a coming she is pushed around in the and sister. brother have to grow up to provide for
of age novel. middle of her parents divorce. their family.
Coming of age stories focus on the growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood.
In a coming of age story you expect to see the protagonists go through series of challenges or events that will make him/her realise a larger message and make the transition from youth to adult.
Genre Theorists
"Genres are instances of repetition and difference... difference is absolutely essential to the economy of Genre." (Neale, 1980)
It explains that all pieces of writing,even when they are in the same genre, are different in some way.
"An individual text within a genre rarely if ever has all of the characteristic features of the genre." (Fowler, 1989)
Stories can be classified under multiple genres.
Advantages Of Writing In A Genre
- There are previous examples of stores from different genres that you can draw inspiration from.
- Writers can chooses to write in a genre that they have ideas and strengths in
- They can shape the story to make it unique and relate to themselves.
- You have to keep it along the same main characteristics, yet find a way to make it unique
- Some stories could be comment on as too similar to a story from the same genre
- There are some stories that have been publish that are basically the same plot line.
- Writing in one genre can limit your options.
- Development Novel:The story explores the general growth of a charter rather than self cultivation
- Education novel:Focuses on training and formal schooling
- Artist Novel:About the development of an artist.
Texts From The Same Genre
Catcher In The Rye What Maisie Knew To Kill A Mockingbird That Was Then, This Is Now
J.D Salinger (1951) Henry James (1897) Harper Lee (1960) S.E Hinton (1971)
The novel deals with This book deals with family issues To Kill A Mockingbird explores Deals with the relationship between
finding an identity, and the influences parents going issues such as racial injustice, two brothers who work to provide
belonging and the way through issues have on their social classes,courage and their family with money as their mother is in
people perceive you. Children and how they deal compassion,gender roles and the hospital. When one begins to make lots
The character of Holden with it. The main character of the laws. The main protaginist of money selling drugs, the other calls the
goes through the typical Maisie is forced to mature when Scout and Jem Finch, brother police and he is taken away. Both of the
changes seen in a coming she is pushed around in the and sister. brother have to grow up to provide for
of age novel. middle of her parents divorce. their family.