genrefication

noun

1. Shelving of library books or similar works based on genre.

   uncountable

   Genrefication is pretty great. It allows users to find books they're interested in much more easily.

2. Softening of boundaries between literary fiction and genre fiction.

   uncountable

   For reasons that aren’t fully explicable (Netflix? Tumblr? Kindles? Postmodernism?), it’s no longer taken for granted that important novels must be, in some sense, above, beyond, or “meta” about their genre. A process of genrefication is occurring.

Where it comes from

From genre + -fication. In the sense of softening boundaries, coined by Joshua Rothman in 2014.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry genrefication (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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