English Literature A-Level
Generic convention and innovation
What Generic convention and innovation means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The conventions associated with a type, such as clue and solution in detective fiction or delay in revenge tragedy, and how the text confirms, complicates or rejects them.
Topics that use Generic convention and innovation
- Elements of crime writing (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ambiguity and unresolved endings
- Betrayal
- Class and social voice
- Closure and resolution
- Crime across literary periods
- Crime as narrative driver
- Crime as social critique
- Elements
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