Genrefication

Quick meaning: Genrefication is a noun meaning Shelving of library books or similar works based on genre.

Meaning

Shelving of library books or similar works based on genre.

More Meanings

1. Softening of boundaries between literary fiction and genre fiction.

Example Sentences

Genrefication is pretty great. It allows users to find books they're interested in much more easily.

The so-called ‘genrefication’ or ‘genre debate’ relates to the relationship between popular fiction and literary fiction, and has been of particular significance in US literary circles in recent years.

Under the Dewey Decimal System that revolutionized and standardized book shelving starting in 1876, nonfiction essentially already gets the genrefication treatment with, for example, Music located in the 780s and Paleontology in the 560s.

For reasons that aren’t fully explicable (Netflix? Tumblr? Kindles? Postmodernism?), it’s no longer taken for granted that important novels must be, in some sense, above, beyond, or “meta” about their genre. A process of genrefication is occurring.

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Related dictionary entries include genrelization, generification, recategorisation, sherardisation, recategorization, subclassification.

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