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A satisfying account of genre and genre membership must explain these interpretative and evaluative effects. Rather than treating genres as feature-based categories that differ in what their members are like, the argument proposes understanding genres as purpose-based categories, distinguished by what the works in them are intended to serve.","Genre, Interpretation and Evaluation\nCatharine Abell\nProceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2015) 115:1, pp 25-40.\nAbstract\nThe genre to which an artwork belongs affects how it is to be interpreted and evaluated. An account of genre and of the criteria for genre membership should explain these interpretative and evaluative effects. Contrary to conceptions of genres as categories distinguished by the features of the works that belong to them, I argue that these effects are to be explained by conceiving of genres as categories distinguished by certain of the purposes that the works belonging to them are intended to serve.\nIntroduction\nMy aim in this paper is to provide an account of genre that helps us to understand why membership of certain categories affects the interpretation and evaluation of artworks. I begin by describing the interpretative and evaluative effects of category membership that I want the account to explain. From these, I then identify some desiderata for an account of genre that seeks to explain these effects. To these, I then add some further constraints, based on considerations about the scope, structure, development and criteria for membership of the categories at issue. I then assess one suggested explanation of the interpretative and evaluative effects at issue and argue that it is inadequate. Finally, I propose an alternative account of genre and argue that it meets the criteria that I have identified.\nI The interpretative and evaluative effects of genre membership\nThe term “genre” is used in a wide variety of ways. Art critics use it to refer to categories of artworks, such as film noir, the Western, science fiction, horror, still life, or history painting. Linguists and rhetoricians use it to refer to categories of text: for example, history, biography, nonfiction, newspaper editorial, street hoarding, monograph, shopping list and research article; or categories of discourse: for example, tutorial, doctoral defense, apology, video-conference, eulogy and courtroom speech (Miller 1984; Askehave and Swales 2001). It is not clear that all these categories share anything interesting in common. Even as used by critics, the term may pick out categories that appear to classify works on the basis of such diverse features as setting (Western, road movie), content (romance), medium (musical), effects (comedy, horror), tone (noir), budget (blockbuster) or origins (Elizabethan drama). Some critics therefore deny that there is any set of necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for being a genre that experts and audiences alike would endorse (Bordwell 1989, p. 147).\nIn this paper, I will restrict my focus to categories of artworks membership of which can affect the way in which a work is interpreted and evaluated. For present purposes, let us restrict the application of the term “genre” to such categories. My aim is to provide accounts of what a genre is and of the criteria for genre membership that are able, jointly, to explain the effects of genre membership on the interpretation and evaluation of artworks. The resultant accounts are to be evaluated, not according to how well they conform to everyday use of the term “genre”, but according to how well they explain the interpretative and evaluative effects at issue. The account should be consistent with common usage of the term “genre” only to the extent that it picks out categories that have such effects.\nA work’s membership of a genre can affect its interpretation in at least three ways. Firstly, it can affect which of its features are deemed representationally relevant and which are not. For example, in a film, actors may sing some of their lines. Whether or not we take the characters they play to be singing depends on the genre to which the film belongs. We are more likely to do so if the film is a melodrama than if it is a musical. 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