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The boxes art comes in, and the boxes it spends a lifetime escaping.
means Categories that sort creative works—books, films, music—by shared style, form, or subject matter.
from From French genre, meaning kind or type, itself from Latin genus, the same root behind gender and genealogy—all about classifying what belongs with what.
Aristotle started itHe split poetry into tragedy, comedy, and epic.
Marketing toolBookstore shelves are genres made physical.
Always blurringBest works tend to break their own category.