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genre-bending en · ADJ

Etymology

From genre + bending, on the pattern of genderbending.

Meanings

  1. Characterized by subversion of generic tropes or fusion of disparate genres.
    • 2016, January 22. Rebecca Strong, "The Challenges of Marketing a Genre-Bending Novel." Publishers Weekly.

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genre-bender

genre-bending en · NOUN

Etymology

From genre + bending, on the pattern of genderbending.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The subversion of tropes associated with a particular artistic genre or the synthesis of multiple genres.
    • Here [...] the practice of genre bending is tied specifically to the strategy of the Fourth Gospel in contradistinction to the practice in other comparable texts. 2015, Kasper Bro Larsen, The Gospel of John as Genre Mosaic, page 284:
    • 2005, October 7. "Internet the source for the scores", Chicago Tribune. For "Corpse Bride", the idiosyncratic composer has drawn on his affinity for musical genre-bending.