blurred genre

is a kind of genre mixing in intellectual life which focuses less on the general and more on the abstract.

'First, echoing his title, he noted the 'enormous amount of genre mixing in intellectual life.' Second, he noted that such mixed genres tended to focus less on the general and more on the particular, that scholars were not quite as interested in 'the sort of thing that connects planets and pendulums' as much as they were in that which 'connects chrysanthemums and swords.' Finally, he identified an analogical impulse in cultural analysis, an incorporation of the central metaphors of the humanities into sociological understanding.'

blurred genre, n.All

blurred genre