RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Genre Terms

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Versions of works (Gathering term; do not assign)

    SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term.

. Abridgements

. Acting editions

.     SN: Use for plays with extensive printed production information.

. Adaptations

. Books for the visually impaired

. Expurgated editions

.     HN: Changed 1/91. Formerly, "Expurgated editions" may have been
. indexed as "Expurgated books.

.     SN: Use for editions or versions of works from which
. objectionable parts in the original text -- whether or not
. that text has been published -- have been deleted, usually
. on moral grounds.

. Parodies

.     SN: Use for humorous, sometimes satiric, imitations of other
. works.

. Pastiches

.     SN: Use for literary or other artistic works created by
. assembling bits and pieces from other works.

. Promptbooks

.     SN: Use for plays with manuscript production annotations.

. Scenarios

.     SN: Use for plot outlines of dramatic works.

. Synopses

. Translations

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