NP : Was " genres are literature too" thread

[Bekah]

There's a very good question,  Michael.   And I'll add my own,  what is genre?   Is bodice-ripper historical fiction considered genre fiction (as opposed to literary fiction,  I suppose)  ?   Historical fiction is known for its epics and many of them are certainly not great literature.   I'm thinking of Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and the like - no,  that's not really a bodice-ripper,  but it could be an epic,  I suppose.  It's certainly not great lit for sure (at least not imo). 

Bekah 

On Oct 14, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> what counts as an epic?
> the multi-volume novels of Star Wars and Star Trek might qualify.
> for that matter, the collected Sherlock Holmes is epical in a way, isn't it?
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> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:48 AM, 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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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