Francisco M. Martinez

The Unheard Genre: Innovation, Gatekeeping, Resistance, and the Social Adoption of New Literary Architectures

Accounts of literary history often imply that authentic genres arise accidentally, become real only through collective adoption, and receive legitimate names only from later critics. This study challenges that assumption through the Architectural Existence and Social Adoption Mod...

The Unheard Genre: Innovation, Gatekeeping, Resistance, and the Social Adoption of New Literary Architectures

Accounts of literary history often imply that authentic genres arise accidentally, become real only through collective adoption, and receive legitimate names only from later critics. This study challenges that assumption through the Architectural Existence and Social Adoption Mod...

Beyond Containment: Establishing the Critical Parameters of Mythotechnic Fiction

This paper establishes the critical, methodological, and quantitative framework for distinguishing Mythotechnic Fiction, Meta-Mythic Delphic Fiction, and Ontological Systems Fiction from adjacent literary genres and subgenres. It develops the multidimensional genre-space model, d...