Read the following excerpt about genre fiction and choose the correct alternative.
What makes a bestseller? What do consumer-readers want? Genre provides some clues: in forgoing any of the challenges, surprises or defamiliarisations of literary technique, genre promotes familiarity, fulfilling preformed expectations from its packaging regarding style, story and reading conventions. Aligned with packaging, therapy, consumption, genre forms one part of the marketability of popular fiction. ln what it represents (lifestyles) and its spin-offs, it remains close to a world of commodities. Its interplay of comforting sameness with a small addition of difference is facilitated by a flexible use of generic and literary interrelationships.
BOTTING, F. Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess. In: The Cambridge Companion to popular fiction. Ed. By David Glover; Scott McCracken. Cambridge; New York; Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 164.
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Read the following excerpt about genre fiction and choose the correct alternative.

What makes a bestseller? What do consumer-readers want? Genre provides some clues: in forgoing any of the challenges, surprises or defamiliarisations of literary technique, genre promotes familiarity, fulfilling preformed expectations from its packaging regarding style, story and reading conventions. Aligned with packaging, therapy, consumption, genre forms one part of the marketability of popular fiction. ln what it represents (lifestyles) and its spin-offs, it remains close to a world of commodities. Its interplay of comforting sameness with a small addition of difference is facilitated by a flexible use of generic and literary interrelationships.

BOTTING, F. Bestselling fiction: machinery, economy, excess. In: The Cambridge Companion to popular fiction. Ed. By David Glover; Scott McCracken. Cambridge; New York; Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 164.

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Genre fiction meets the pre-formed expectations of its readers.

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Genre fiction is imposed upon people by those for whom literature is marketable.

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Consumer-readers like genre because of its flexible use of literary interrelationships.

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Following the rules of marketability, popular genres combine sameness with the defamiliarization of literary techniques.

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Readers of genre fiction like challenges and surprises.

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