NP : Was " genres are literature too" thread

[Bekah]

Would Lonesome Dove be a kind of genre epic? 

Bekah

On Oct 13, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> P.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> And perhaps themes even the best mysteries cannot have?
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> But I' m now threadbare on this thread
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> Sent from my iPad
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