No disagreement with any of your comments Mark. Just thought
I'd challenge the popular notion if for no other reason than
it has become casually accepted. I could agree, too, that
Camus transcends Cain (though I'm not sure that I do) but I
don't think that requires transcending, or that Camus does
transcend the genre, regardless of the author's purpose. I
thought The Stranger fit quite comfortably in the noir
genre.
What the hey, Kerry
At 03:22 PM 16/06/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Kerry,
>
>And, in our culture, most, even without reading them,
would say Camus's
>was better than Cain's, that Camus had transcended
his lowly
>inspiration. Literature is perceived by most as
higher than crime
>fiction or science fiction, etc. It's the canon,
what's taught in
>universities. Sure, genre fiction has now been taught
for a few
>decades, too, but as electives, or in Popular Culture
or American
>Studies programs, where it is engaged more on a
sociological than an
>aesthetic basis. Bringing it full circle, there are
clearly class
>presumptions in what we see as real vs. trash
literature. Taste is as
>much a socio-demographic construct as an aesthetic
one.
>
>Mark
>
>ps -- in his recent What Good Are the Arts?, John
Carey does a great job
>of tearing apart the commonly held belief that
consumers get more from
>high art than from low art, or other, non-artistic
pursuits, for that
>matter.
>
>
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