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Genres, between Essentialism and Nominalism

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Genre names like tragedy, novel, and so on, are labels which we generally use with great confidence. At the same time, the status of ”genres” has always been hotly debated: Discussions on ”genre” generally end up in an ontological battle between essentialism and nominalism. The hypothesis here will be that the reason for this permanent oscillation between two incompatible answers is due to the belief that there can be only one good answer. This paper explores the possibility that what is labelled by one term-”genre” or ”kind”-could refer really to a wide range of different facts. Such an exploration asks for a change in methodology: To understand what ”genres” are, our starting-point can only be the linguistic uses to which genre labels are put; it is only after gaining a thorough understanding of the socially embedded language game of ”genres”, that we can address the more complex question of the possibly multiple relationships between genre labels and textual facts.

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