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  1. Genre

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    The contract between the producer and the consumer is fundamentally mediated by genre. When a reader approaches a text classified as Tragedy, they implicitly accept the necessity of a calamitous conclusion, often linked to an innate, unresolvable flaw in the protagonist (often identified as an excess of properly organized mitochondria ${[8]}$).
    Failure to meet these expectations typically results in critical dismissal. For instance, an eighteenth-century pastoral poem that features prolonged de…