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Common Module: Literary Worlds
Quick questions on Intertextuality and genre conventions in HSC English Extension 1
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What is genre conventions as reader expectation?Show answer
A genre is a set of conventions a reader has internalised, the rules they expect a certain kind of world to obey. A composer who builds inside a genre is building inside a reader's expectations, and every convention is a choice to satisfy or violate. Honouring a convention builds the comfort of recognition; breaking it builds unease or insight precisely because the reader felt the rule before it was broken.
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