Re: Literary works missing from Creative Properties and Classes

 Karen,

I agree that "many of these genres are not mutually exclusive".
However, there will always be a hierarchy. A memoir will be a memoir
even if it is written in blank verse. The class "memoir" would be used
and - in the catalog description - it could state blank verse provided
the parsers knew it to be blank verse.

Your Library of Congress example is perfect for illustration of mix
genres: "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce is a fictive
dictionary and - as such - is readily described as a "dictionary".

I reread the Library of Congress' genre list and my suggested classes
follow LoC's.

Sean

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 It's always going to be hard to come up with a definitive, and yet 
 easily usable, list. Many of these genres are not mutually exclusive
-- 
 I suppose someone could write their memoirs in poetry format

 I'd worry about mixing literary genre (that is, the form that
something 
 is written in, like a poem) and type of content (folktale) However,
I 
 looked at the Library of Congress genre list [1] and it, too, seems
to 
 mix genre and type (e.g. dictionary and fiction), so I suppose it is 
 inevitable. However, you might want to look at that list to get
another 
 point of view.

 kc
 [1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcgt.html