Post by account_disabled on Jan 2, 2024 23:17:47 GMT -5
Today, genre literature means novels and short stories in which specific content elements are recognisable, allowing the reader and publisher to categorize them easily. We all know, therefore, that if in Italy we take a novel with a yellow cover, perhaps with a drawing of a gun, we are dealing with a book whose plot will revolve around a crime and the search for a culprit. If we take a text on the science fiction shelf we expect themes that have to do with the "future" understood in the broadest sense of the term. In some ways, it creates the same expectation with which the ancient Greeks went to witness a tragedy. We know, at least in general terms, what the novel will be about, but we do not know the author's tone and intentions.
The author, on the other hand, if he does not want to displease the public, knows that there are things he cannot do, just as a tragedian could not make Achilles return home after ten years of war, but he has ample Special Data possibilities for maneuver on how to deal with the chosen topic. Genre literature and consumer literature For publishers, the existence of literary genres is manna from heaven! All they need to do is put a pink cover to let a specific target audience know that inside they will find a love story, a yellow one to attract readers looking for crimes to solve and so on. It makes your marketing job a lot easier! Furthermore, when a book is successful it is easier, within a genre, to understand what worked (Malvadi inserts typically.
Tuscan irony and mild references to today's Italian reality onto a classic English-style detective story structure! Here the formula to be replicated!) and therefore it is easy for the publisher to commission similar works, which have no literary pretensions. Their only purpose is to sell, satisfying the expectations of that segment of readers. This is consumer literature, which has no other purpose than to entertain its target audience. Personally I don't see anything bad in consumer literature, not only do I not demonize it, I use it. When I just want to switch off my brain, I'm certainly not ashamed of reading novels! Sometimes I also need to dream of Prince Charming in the pages of a Harmony! However, the fact that much consumer literature is also genre literature does not make the opposite true. Not all genre literature is consumer literature.
The author, on the other hand, if he does not want to displease the public, knows that there are things he cannot do, just as a tragedian could not make Achilles return home after ten years of war, but he has ample Special Data possibilities for maneuver on how to deal with the chosen topic. Genre literature and consumer literature For publishers, the existence of literary genres is manna from heaven! All they need to do is put a pink cover to let a specific target audience know that inside they will find a love story, a yellow one to attract readers looking for crimes to solve and so on. It makes your marketing job a lot easier! Furthermore, when a book is successful it is easier, within a genre, to understand what worked (Malvadi inserts typically.
Tuscan irony and mild references to today's Italian reality onto a classic English-style detective story structure! Here the formula to be replicated!) and therefore it is easy for the publisher to commission similar works, which have no literary pretensions. Their only purpose is to sell, satisfying the expectations of that segment of readers. This is consumer literature, which has no other purpose than to entertain its target audience. Personally I don't see anything bad in consumer literature, not only do I not demonize it, I use it. When I just want to switch off my brain, I'm certainly not ashamed of reading novels! Sometimes I also need to dream of Prince Charming in the pages of a Harmony! However, the fact that much consumer literature is also genre literature does not make the opposite true. Not all genre literature is consumer literature.