Genre Theory

Genre and experience Fiction Genre, as defined by the Oxford dictionary (2010), is a port or category of art, music, or literature. It is a term that is easy to define but delicate to understand. The mere division of what one music genre is compared to another has been problematic for academics and scholars for centuries. As noted by Robert Allen, genre study has experience the division of the world of literature into types and naming of those types.This has conduct the study of genre to beat a more scientific process of comparing and contrasting between texts, until a definitive consequence is reached. However, though it is determinable, the overlapping and blur between two or more genres is still apparent. For example, acquisition allegory has become a debacle of over the last 200 years science fiction has been shifted and shaped, closely a reflection of the context. Previously, science fiction was stereotypically denounced as just robots and aliens.Conversely science fi ction has much more to offer renowned authors such as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and William Gibson have all written texts centuries, and if not, decades ago that have become seminal and central to the genre. In addition, just these authors alone have reflected the transient and fluid nature of the science fiction genre. Considered the first ever science fiction text, Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818) grounded and laid the pathway for succeeding(a) science fiction texts.Shelleys text, though ignorantly is just to the highest degree a mad scientist who creates a monster, holds a much deeper understanding to it. The notion of mans ability to create a more or less third kind caused fears around its readers, whereas the contemporary audience can just suspend their disbelief and except accept what is told or shown to them which highlight the shifting nature of audiences ongoing acceptance of new aspects of science fiction.This foreground of this new genre led to many au thors with comparably yet contrasting ideas over the years which has led science fiction to be still not definitive. Vernes work represented what was exciting about the age and furthered Shelleys idea that mans capabilities were infinitely possible including air prompt and marine exploration.Vernes successor, Wells, reflected his times through presenting the industrial revolution as negative, the ability to time travel as well as this concept of life beyond Earth almost as a forecaster of greater yet possibly sinister events to come namely the atomic bomb and space. Science fiction is the search of man and his status in the universe (Brian Aldiss) which mab be on the basis of foundation garment through science and technology (Kingsley Amis) but most importantly how different generations perceive the world to be and what it could be.