THE GENRES OF HARRY POTTERA FAMILY TREE

MYTH
EPIC
FANTASY

FAIRY TALE QUEST ROMANCE

GOTHIC
MYSTERY

REALISM
BILDUNGSROMAN

CHILDRENS LIT

SCHOOL STORY
LIT VOCAB: GENRE (type of literature), CONVENTION (features we
associate with certain genres), REVISION (adapting and/or changing
conventions), GENERIC HYBRIDITY (mixing or overlapping of
genres); ALSO ARCHETYPE (familiar example of a character type or
other aspect of literary form), INTERTEXTUALITY (relation between
texts, ways they talk to, or are in dialogue with, each other),
LITERARY INFLUENCE (influence of one author, text, or genre on
another text)
[I]t is important to note that the absorption of influence, far from
diminishing originality, is the true condition of originality.
--A. O. Scott, Spielbergian, on a Budget: Beasts
of the Southern Wild Shares Something with
Lincoln, The New York Times, 26 December
2012