in the age of the printing press. One may print a lyric or read a novel aloud, but such incidental changes are not enough in themselves to alter the genre. For all the loving care that is rightfully expended on the printed texts of Shakespeare’s plays, they are still radically acting scripts, and belong to the genre of drama (1967: 247). It is therefore safe to conclude that Aristotle’s three aspects of genre are present in prose narrative, but are packaged, or presented, in a new way. Perhaps at
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