That's a much more useful way of looking at things than what I was working with and an interesting thought about Silence of the Lambs and Pet Cemetary how they can be linked and unlinked in categories.
It leads to another question of how a work of fiction becomes a genre? I suppose that has a lot to do with the business of publishing and selling books, but those decisions that the publishers and agents and all those folks make has to be based on something that led them, or their predecessors to divide up work and authors into genres.
I'm taking the long way around the barn, I guess, but I think that I'm wondering where the genres came from, why we have the ones we have, and what balance of the unexplained and inexplicable causes readers to categorize you in one of them.
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Date: 2006-01-24 08:25 pm (UTC)It leads to another question of how a work of fiction becomes a genre? I suppose that has a lot to do with the business of publishing and selling books, but those decisions that the publishers and agents and all those folks make has to be based on something that led them, or their predecessors to divide up work and authors into genres.
I'm taking the long way around the barn, I guess, but I think that I'm wondering where the genres came from, why we have the ones we have, and what balance of the unexplained and inexplicable causes readers to categorize you in one of them.