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 Yes, I suppose it depends on how a person looks at genre. Many people just go to a bookstore or the library and go to the mystery novel section, for example, because they read one mystery that they really liked. When people focus singularly on one genre of a work of literature then I guess that does limit it. But if you go looking for a book knowing that you will find it under only one genre, one description, but that there are many layers beneath that, then genre can still be used as a tool for organization while not dictating too much of a perception of the literature.