ABSTRACT
This chapter looks into the concept of genre and genre theories. The concept of genre is examined in light of its potential to offer different interpretations and its open nature for variations. This part establishes the grounds of my theoretical framework and its subsequent use in the analysis of the literary works by outlining the potential of genres to blend and create new meanings. Therefore, the stress of the second part of this chapter falls on the postmodern traits reflected in contemporary genre blending. This approach inevitably leads to postmodernist investigation, and the discussion unravels a more detailed theoretical review that draws on the connection between genre blending and the postmodernist problematics of fact and fiction duality.
