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    This document discusses the difference between genre and formula in popular literature. Genre refers to universal plot forms or archetypes, while formula represents how a specific culture has adapted and integrated a genre into its own conventions. Romance is used as an example - the genre involves a love story and happy ending, while different cultures develop their own formulas that reflect their concerns. Formula is seen as culture-based and limited compared to genre, but it also allows cultures to synthesize art forms for solidarity and enjoyment. The key difference is that genre is basic and universal, while formula is more specific and represents a culture's interests and values at a given time period.

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    This document discusses the difference between genre and formula in popular literature. Genre refers to universal plot forms or archetypes, while formula represents how a specific culture has adapted and integrated a genre into its own conventions. Romance is used as an example - the genre involves a love story and happy ending, while different cultures develop their own formulas that reflect their concerns. Formula is seen as culture-based and limited compared to genre, but it also allows cultures to synthesize art forms for solidarity and enjoyment. The key difference is that genre is basic and universal, while formula is more specific and represents a culture's interests and values at a given time period.

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    This document discusses the difference between genre and formula in popular literature. Genre refers to universal plot forms or archetypes, while formula represents how a specific culture has adapted and integrated a genre into its own conventions. Romance is used as an example - the genre involves a love story and happy ending, while different cultures develop their own formulas that reflect their concerns. Formula is seen as culture-based and limited compared to genre, but it also allows cultures to synthesize art forms for solidarity and enjoyment. The key difference is that genre is basic and universal, while formula is more specific and represents a culture's interests and values at a given time period.

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    GENRE AND FORMULA Contemporary, Popular, and

    Emergent Literature
    THE CONCEPT •Difference between genre and formula
    •Importance of this difference in popular literature
    OF GENRE AND
    FORMULA
    * The analysis of Popular literature is somewhat different from that of fine arts (like
    paintings, sculptures, poetry, etc.)
    * In popular culture, we are dealing with a product that is in some sense collective
    (Mukerji & Schudson, 1986).
    Cultural

    Social
    SIMILARITIES

    Psychological

    THEMES: tried and true methods of dealing with popular culture.


    Analysis of The concept
    cultural of medium
    themes

    The idea of The concept


    myth/genre of formula
    NORTHROP
    FRYE’S GENRE
    AND MYTH
    * totality of literary works constitute a “self-
    ANATOMY OF contained literary universe”

    CRITICISM * four radical mythoi (i.e. plot forms, or organizing


    structural principles)

    (1957)
    * Comedy is aligned with spring because the
    genre of comedy is characterized by the birth of
    the hero, revival and resurrection.
    Also, spring symbolizes the defeat of winter and
    darkness.
    • Romance and summer are paired together
    because summer is the culmination of life in the
    seasonal calendar, and the romance genre
    culminates with some sort of triumph, usually a
    marriage.
    • Autumn is the dying stage of the seasonal
    calendar, which parallels the tragedy genre
    because it is, (above all), known for the “fall” or
    demise of the protagonist.
    • Satire is compared to winter on the grounds
    that satire is a “dark” genre. Satire is a
    disillusioned and mocking form of the three other
    genres. It is noted for its darkness, dissolution,
    the return of chaos, and the defeat of the heroic
    figure.

    (Barad, 2014).
    * Frye: genre and myth are universal patterns of
    action which manifests itself in all human cultures
    [western cultures]

    GENRE VS * Therefore, genre can be defined as a structural


    pattern which embodies a universal pattern or myth
    FORMULA * Formula, on the other hand, is a cultural pattern; it
    represents the way in which a culture has absorbed
    or integrated for itself the myth.
    ROMANCE AS GENRE VS ROMANCE AS FORMULA

    Differences in setting, characters, and action:

    FRYE: romance genre culminates with some sort


    of triumph, usually a marriage.
    (UNIVERSAL ARCHETYPE)
    Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a
    central love story and an emotionally satisfying and
    optimistic ending (Romance Writers of America)
    * differences are cultural and they reflect the particular concerns and needs of the
    time of its production and the group which created them.

    Re(inventing) the Filipino Romance: conventions and innovations in the novels of Martha Cecilia and
    Elise Estrella (Chiongson, J., 2017)

    WESTERN ROMANCE FORMULA PHILIPPINE ROMANCE FORMULA

    • The formula has changed over the years. • The formula has changed over the years
    • The most recent by An Goris (2012) • Encanto (1996)
    • Hero and Heroine meet • Low born protagonist
    • Mutual Attraction • Upper class adversaries or enemies
    • Internal and external conflict • Triumph of the protagonist
    • Crisis • HEA
    • The relationship seems doomed
    • HEA

    Do the romance fiction of 2020 still follow this formula?


    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    * formula is expectation setting
    * formula articulated by one culture can be taken over another
    * formula is culture-based; therefore, while comparisons are unavoidable, it would not
    present a complete analysis
    CULTURAL NATURE OF FORMULA (CAWELTI, 1972)
    FIRST POINT
    GENRE FORMULA
    BASIC AND UNIVERSAL LIMITED AND SPECIFIC

    The greater the specificity of plot, character, and setting reflects a more limited framework of interests,
    values, and tensions that relate to culture rather than to the generic nature of human beings.

    SECOND POINT
    FORMULA
    REPRESENT SYNTHESIS OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT CULTURAL FUNCTIONS, WHICH IN MODERN CULTURES
    HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY POPULAR FORMS OF ART

    Members of a culture can understand and participate in formula as a part of their sense of solidarity and
    for personal enjoyment and recreation.
    IS FORMULA BAD FOR
    LITERATURE?

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