NP : Was " genres are literature too" thread

[Prashant Kumar]

Maybe it's just no one has written a serious genre epic? Problem with genre
(fiction) seems to me to be that it can stray too easily into camp. Can't
imagine a true genre epic because the ground's been trodden barren.

P.

On 14 October 2012 09:51, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I cannot find the lat post on this, from Paul M., I think, but posting one
> differing opinion
> Still seems necessary to me.
>
> On theme: which is in my use not just a topic or subject but a vision of a
> topic or subject.
> War:     Topic of The Iliad and All quiet on the Western Front, for
> example. Themes quite different.
>
> And perhaps themes even the best mysteries cannot have?
>
> But I' m now threadbare on this thread
>
> Sent from my iPad
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