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Arcsquad12 posted:I find the only distinction comes when somebody decides to label something as literature or genre. It has no bearing on actual quality. Exactly. It's all pretense, like any other artistic set. Often coupled with frustration that their darlings are impenetrable to the average consumer, but bad Twilight fanfiction has made the author over $60m and a fat beardy goon who doesn't even write is still raking in press and $15m a year for rights to words he'll die of sheer corpulence (or a poo poo-dick relapse) before writing.
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Ras Het posted:I care insanely little about whether there is a literature market or whether we are producing literary content for literary customers, I just want people to read Voltaire and Céline and abhor modern society You're right at home with the genre crowd in spirit, then! There is no one who abhors modern society more than those deeply steeped in escapism.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I'm not sure how to delineate the categories. "Genre" fiction is more than just sci-fi and fantasy, right? Something like, say, Nero Wolfe mysteries or romance novels would be "genre" fiction, yes? I assume that must be the case. I'd love to hear someone actually attempt to defend The Road as not being paint-by-numbers dystopian science fiction.
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Jul 24, 2017 08:33
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Mel Mudkiper posted:A fedora has gained sentience Craft does matter, but then we are also in need of a better definition of 'genre' beyond pretentious snobbery still based in the era of pulps.
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Jul 24, 2017 22:34
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Tree Goat posted:it's a normative category based on a combination of its content and its marketing, hth. So your contention is that it has nothing to do with quality, but rather is simply marketing choices? 
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Halloween Jack posted:Is it even that impenetrable, or simply unappealing? I don't keep up with literary fiction, but my stereotype of it is that it's mostly about family drama, upper-middle-class ennui, and/or people who work at a college. I fully admit that I am bored to tears by writing for the sake of wordplay if it is not in service to a compelling narrative. The impression that the author has decided to self-consciously attempt to impress the audience by beating them liberally about the head with a thesaurus is not something I look for in literature.
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