Crime Subvertion (1 Viewer)

[yoshimanu]

i have recently been given a critical response task on genre and crime fiction...
is genre useful in helping us to understand the text?
are texts more engaging when they conform to the genres or when they challenge and play with the conventions? (listing texts to support the argument

 

[Aimz- Lou.]

Ok. We used The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard as a prescribed text, and it is a fantastic example of the subversion of the conventions of crime fiction. The subversion of the conventions can often make them more obvious, which in turn leads to a better understanding of the genre...

And I think yes, genre is useful in helping us to understand the text, because it allows the reader to form expectations of the text before they read it, and to understand what style and concepts will be explored during the text... And by knowing and understanding the form and general themes of a text before it is read, the audience can thus gain a further insight into the actual text itself during the reading.

I hope that helps.