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Introduction: Genres as Fields of Knowledge
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In this paper, a taxonomy that never fully taxonomizes, labels that never quite keep things straight, is used to classify genres, and how the rise of digitization changes these archives, lexicons, and maps.Abstract:
What exactly are genres? Are they a classifying system matching the phenomenal world of objects, a sorting principle that separates oranges from apples? Or are they less than that, a taxonomy that never fully taxonomizes, labels that never quite keep things straight? What archives come with genres, what critical lexicons do they offer, and what maps do they yield? And how does the rise of digitization change these archives, lexicons, and maps?read more
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