Genre is a word that refers to any category or
identifiable type of literature or art form. Of course, there are many different types
of genres around, and you might like to think about the way in which we apply genres
much more commonly to films in our everyday speech and understanding than we do to works
of literature. Thus we go to see a horror film or a romantic comedy, or an action film
or a drama. These are examples of genres because they help divide up art forms into
various groups or categories for us to compare and contrast them with other similar or
like art forms.
Thus when we consider "The Doll's House,"
the simple answer is that its genre is a short story. The short story is a distinct
literary form into which Mansfield's work falls which stands by itself and allows us to
group short stories together so that they can be studied and
compared.
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