RE: RARA-AVIS: Just as a matter of curiosity...

From: Anthony Dauer ( anthony.dauer@verizon.net)
Date: 05 May 2002

A DEFENCE OF PENNY DREADFULS by G.K. Chesterton

One of the strangest examples of the degree to which ordinary life is undervalued is the example of popular literature, the vast mass of which we contentedly describe as vulgar. The boy's novelette may be ignorant in a literary sense, which is only like saying that modern novel is ignorant in the chemical sense, or the economic sense, or the astronomical sense; but it is not vulgar intrinsically--it is the actual centre of a million flaming imaginations.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs6mpw/gkc/books/penny-dreadfuls.html
  

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Anthony Dauer
Alexandria, Virginia


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-----Original Message-----
From: marianne.macdonald@lineone.net
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 9:34 AM


Penny dreadfuls??  What???




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