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Hybrid genre

Meaning in literature, with examples

nounCommon term

In literature, hybrid genre means: A genre that combines important features, conventions, or expectations from two or more different genres.

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How it is used

Useful when discussing works that mix forms, such as memoir with criticism or horror with comedy. It stresses blending rather than a single pure category.

Example sentences

  1. The editor marketed the book as a hybrid genre, pairing detective suspense with historical diary entries and family memoir.

    Here, hybrid genre signals that the book should be read through multiple sets of conventions, not judged by one genre alone.

  2. At the conference, one panel asked whether climate fiction has become a hybrid genre linking science writing, satire, and the novel.

    In this sentence, the term identifies a category formed by crossing established literary and nonfiction modes.

Common collocations

  • a hybrid genre
  • genre hybridization
  • hybrid genre fiction
  • work across genres
  • genreA category of literature defined by shared features of form, style or subject, such as poetry, drama and the novel, or crime, fantasy and romance.
  • fictionStories, such as novels and short stories, that describe imaginary events and people rather than real ones.

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