Literary genre and fictional reference

Abstract

Being the genre the social and cultural institution on which mainly depends the concrete literary communication, this article focuses on the generic codification as a fundamental variable to consider in the general discussion on fictional reference, especially on narrative literature. The first part of the article introduces the general problem of fictional reference, and then it presents the possible variables that emerge from different genres, using as example three specific narrative genres (with
no pretension of an accurate definition, but only methodological).