TY - BOOK AU - John Frow TI - Genre SN - 9780415280631 U1 - 808 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Literature N2 - Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture. But it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in music and images, in film and television, genres actively generate and shape our knowledge of the world. Understanding genre as a dynamic process rather than a set of stable rules, this book explores. *the relation of simple to complex genres *the history of literary genre in theory *the generic organisation of implied meanings *the structuring of interpretation by genre *the uses of genre in teaching ER -