Ugh. That whole pedantic 'What is Literature' question is
about as pointless and tedious as my other faves: 'What is a
Classic?,' 'What is Poetry?' and 'What is Art?' Worthy of
Lagodo.
Anymore when fretting souls come up to me for clarification
on the point - and they do, after giving them some
explanatory blather, I tell them that basically, Literature
is Latin for 'reading material.' A good book is a good book,
at least in the eye of the beholder.
David Wright Seattle Public Library
--- Mario Taboada <
matrxtech@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mark D-J says:
>
> <<What the hell is wrong with something being
a
> damn fine
> crime novel? I've enjoyed a lot of those a
lot
> more than a
> lot of the capital-L Literature I've read
> (which is
> arguably a genre of its own)
>
> So arguably that I reject the proposition
out
> of hand.
> Literature is made up of all the genres,
and
> includes,
> besides pure genre works, lots of works
that
> either span
> several genres or are so singular that
they
> can't be easily
> pegged --or that belong to genres that
will
> only be
> identified as such and named later...
>
=====
"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same."
-George Bernard Shaw
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