- In rara-avis-l@ yahoogroups. com,"jacquesdebierue"
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com ,wrote,
Why do we now rate Willeford so highly, whereas some
decades ago he was part of a vast shapeless pile of "popular
literature"? And, most notably, pulp literature was
considered trash for many decades, not worthy of study or
discussion as literature. That's not the case today. The same
happened with B-noir films, cheap horror films, the Corman
crowd, etc.
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Yeah, but you could make just such a list of people and works
considered great in their day and now considered not so
worthy. Earl DerBiggers? Dennis Wheatley, Sax Rohmer? James
Hadley Chase? And even Earl Stanley Gardner. And, no, don't
read me as condemning these guys - far from it - I'm just
making a point. Times and tastes change.
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