boudoir is the genre of a room of one's own.
boudoir is the genre of a room of one's own.
what is the genre of a room of one's own?
boudoir
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people often recognize genre based on the characteristics that the situation offers. amy devitt states this when she says, "a genre is named because of its formal markers" (devitt 10). however she also says, "the formal markers can be defined because a genre has been named" (devitt 10). when we label something as a certain genre, we also flag these same characteristics as contributing to what we already believe the genre to be. these two quotes show how reciprocity functions within genre. devitt displays the reciprocal nature of genre and situation according to the individual by using an example of a grocery store list. a question posed by this example is, is something a grocery list because it lists groceries or is it a grocery list because one person says it is a grocery list and we thus recognize all the items on the list as groceries? though each possible answer to this raised question contradict one another, they are both correct. similarly, individuals recognize the characteristics of the recurring rhetorical situations in the same way as they see them as affirmation of what they already know about the preexisting genre. the rhetorical attributes of the genre act as both objects which define and are defined by genre. in other words, genre and rhetorical situations are reciprocals of one another. devitt focused on activity system of genre and that the participants' situation, contexts and text are all mutually created "no one aspect fully determines the other." (devitt)
genre studies