... wide web, I discovered that the simplest yet most appropriate explanation for a genre appeared on none other than the board of studies homepage. "For readers, genres are sets of conventions and expectations." Like I said - simple enough. It continued. "The conventions of a particular genre are the implied rules which writers follow, and which readers come to expect." When we rearrange this definition ... a genre is simply a set of implied, generalised rules. In a cynical manner, this definition tends to appear truthful. After all, what ... ? But these conventions did not appear overnigh...

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... of the greatest poets and writers of short story fiction. He is branded as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. Poe is primarily known for writing horror/gothic stories, but also has another fame in which he wrote detective stories and in fact started the whole genre of ... detective fiction. He practically created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. Poe did not write any detective novels, just short stories that later on became the most influential pieces of ... Poe's death, all the way up to present time. In most detective ...

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... of its era. Crime stories often use many different forms of the previous forms of crime fiction. The development, adaptations and re-evaluations of crime novels from comedy to tragedy, from depictions of our society to the exploration of an individual; the crime genre is now a genre that incorporates many other genres ... action quicker, with a story that reaches the plot with a fast pace. When Conan-Doyle was writing, televisions or computers hadn't been invented so people had a lot more time to read, this is perhaps the reason why the story ... to justice. Classical detectives such a...

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