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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services
Date last updated: 0507/23/20192020
Date of next review: March 20202021
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Genre Terms
(Coded 655 _7 , with $2 rbgenr at end)
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Genre terms we commonly use, subdividing them by country and century:
- Addresses [i.e. speeches]
- Broadsides
- Dialogues
- Diaries
- Essays
- Fables
- Fiction [may be used for short stories or works of fiction that don't fall neatly into any other category]
- Juvenile literature
- Lectures
- Legislative addresses
- Novellas
- Novels
- Plays
- Poems
- Prospectuses
- Publishers' catalogs
- Satires
- Screenplays
- Sermons
- Short stories
- Songs
- Theater programs
- Three deckers
- Volvelles (this one need not be subdivided)
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