Literary genres

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A genre (French: "kind" or "sort") is a division of a particular form of art such as literature, according to criteria particular to that form. In all art forms, genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries. Genres are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.