colin leslie dean work is a new literary genre

As I read over the last argument my opponent gave us I noticed how wast misunderstanding my opponent seems to have on his own debate topic and how fallacious his entire argument is.To keep this as clear as possible I'm just going to sum up the arguments he made and individually debunk them. First off he states that a Rhyming Prose is not a genre but a description. This is false.“Rhyming pose is not a genre”In his own tally where he showed us how his work did not fit into common genres he stated and defined the following as being genres.-Poetry-Free verse.In that group we would also fit the, accepted I might add, genre of “prose”A rhyming prose is thus a sub-genre in that sense, a genre that has the qualities of a prose but adds in the restriction of rhyming. If the two forementioned 'genres' are genres then a rhyming prose is one as well, and if they are not my opponent has forfeited his entire argument. Dean is first to reccognize this genre as a genre.Also false, as my entire last round showed. It is recognized as a rhyming prose. It is recognized in western culture as a genre, it is recognized in eastern culture and has been for generations, it has been recognized and named in multiple cultures; and it has a name, definition, has a category in poetic analytical, and was purposely used by multiple poets with the clear intention. Nobody “accidentally” wrote a rhymed prose. If someone where to ask an Arabic poet to write a “Saj” he would know that he was being asked to write a literary work that had no metric but had a rhyme pattern, either fixed or not. The sole fact that it has a name is unrefutable proof that it is already a known genre. Whatever Dean writes in said genre is not a new genre no matter how hard he claims it is, we already know and acknowledge the rhymed prose. “ we dont know if they had a name for it or recognized that it was a genre” Also irrelevant. In the extremely unlikely chance that the poets themselves did not have a name or knowladge of the genre they write their poems in (which would be equivalent of Dean not being aware that he is writing an erotic poem as he is writing it and someone else would point it out to him.) later historians and poetic analysts have already diagnosed, named and characterised the genre for them, again, before Dean was born. We know that a prose was well known, as we have recorded usage of the word both by the poets themselves (see the Icelantic sagas) and later analysts using the word. For instance, The first written usage of the term “Rhymed Prose” appeared somewhere in 1812[1], and has been increasing in usage ever since; showing us that it has been recognized for at least 200 years. Dean thus can not have been the first to recognize or identify it unless he has discovered time travel. “we are not interested in what other cultures named or did not name a genre we are talking about our culture ie Western”As you wish. In English culture it is named Rhymed Prose. In Icelantic culture it is named, but incorrectly spelled because I can't use Icelantic letters: “Rimad prosaljod”Proses where a common poetry form around the viking ages from 800-1200 and where well recognized as a prose. But even if the rhymed prose was unknown in 'our' culture that is irrelivent. It still existed and was defined in eastern culture and as such it cannot be a new genre, it is an eastern genre that has existed in one form or the other for millennia. “different cultures did not have a genre called history […] religious and secular yet we would recognize the religious in their belief systems”Completelyirrelevant, as shown. Our culture has a name for this genre of poetry, both identified by said poets and by historians later on before Dean was even born. It does not matter if the first culture to use a genre did not invent the name of the genre if someone else named it later. It has later been named more than a century before Dean claimed to have identified it. "some works may be described both as prose and poetry" ie it does not give a name for the genre ." prose and poetry" Has nothing to do with the debate. A prose is a genre on it's own, A rhymed prose is a sub-genre of prose poetry. The poem Dean used as an example is a rhymed prose.now deans work does not fit this wiki observation as deans work might be prose but it is not poetry -which is metrical writing. So you're admitting that it might be a prose, which means that you admit that it is not a new literary genre. You just threw the entire debate out the window there.“only if you are talking about other cultures -but we are talking in this debate about our Western cultureand in our Western culture as wiki shows there is no named genre for what dean does the names” If a poem is a genre, and free verse is a genre, that must mean a prose is a genre, and thus we have a name. Rhyming pose as a genre exists and the example fits into that genre, thus not being new. “ but it is not called a genre” Look at the wikipedia page on Rhymed prose again.“Rhymed prose is a literary form and literary genre “ It is in fact accepted as being a genre, and if it is a genre already Dean cannot “re-discover” it, it is not new. “I DID NOT SAY DEAN INVENTED A NEW GENRE” But you did state he was the first to identify that this is a genre, thus inventing it, or at least inventing the definition for it. This is false as I've proven time and time again.“agreed but it is a genre without a name in the West the writing style was not/is not recognized as a genre only seen as rhyming prose” “Rhyming Prose” is the full name of this genre and that is the accepted name. Neither in western nor eastern culture is this a genre without name, and even this would be a genre without name it still is a genre and thus Dean cannot say his work is of a new genre. If I were to concede (for argument sake) Dean would still only be able to claim his work was a part of an unnamed genre, not a new one as the resolution implies. . dean is writing rhymed prose [as others in the western tradition have done] but that has nt been seen as a genre with its own name like parody satire etc I don't like repeating myself, but in this case we have a full concession. You Admit that Dean is writing a Rhymed Prose and that others have written in this genre. I've also shown that this is indeed accepted as a genre. If we look up genre we find this definition: “ a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content “ A rhymed prose fits into a specific form and style and thus is a new, recognized, genre. Pro has, both indirectly and directly, forfeited the debate, forfeited his own arguments and failed to provide any evidence for his case. Dean has not invented a new genre.Dean has not defined a new genre. Dean has not recognized a new genre that already existed.Dean did not first identify a genre. I however have proven:That all around the world this genre has been used.That this genre has been identified and defined as a genre.That this genre has been given multiple names in multiple languages. That the first recorded instance of said genre was centuries before Dean was born. That Dean is just writing in a genre already known, identified, named, used and is in no way, shape, form or definition new.Any sensible reader can see that Pro has not been able to make a single evidence relating to the resolution that I could not defeat and refute with little or no effort. In no understanding, definition or intrpretation of the resolution is “Dean's work of a new literary genre”I rest my case, and thank you for the debate. 1]https://books.google.com...