Intrinsic genre
The genre classification upon which the author and the interpreter must agree in order to agree upon meaning, or, simply, the genre the author intended for a given work (Fowler, 1971).
Reference:
Fowler, A. (1971). The life and death of literary forms. New Literary History 2(2), 199-216.
Example:
From Fowler, The Faerie Queene, commonly cited as a triumphal form by readers and critics in concordance with Spenser.
Original Use:
Hirsch, E. D. (1967). Validity in interpretation. New Haven: Yale UP.
Contributed by:
Emerging Genres class, N.C. State University, Spring 2010
