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3837191 No.3837191 [Reply] [Original]

Define literature.
Contrast it to genre fiction.

Explain why this distinction is real and isn't just a marketing ploy.

>> No.3837197

genre fiction books are like hollywood films, literature is the art house of the literary world.

>> No.3837207

who honestly gives a fuck

like come on

>> No.3837212

>>3837191

i don't agree with your premises

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3837213

She is hot, does she have nudes?

This is now a hotties thread.

>> No.3837215

>>3837191
Genre fiction cater to the expectations of the consumer, that's why it defines itself as a genre. Its end is to sell.

Literature does not give fuck and it lives for its sake.

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>>3837213
Cool, a hotties thread!

>> No.3837238

>>3837230
>>3837213

please, anon, do not tempt me with those lewd images. I am trying to be virtuous here.

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>>3837230
>>3837213

awesome show great job

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>>3837215
>Literature does not give fuck and it lives for its sake.

People actually believe this? And why does it have any merit, if anything it would make it worse.

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>>3837191

>> No.3838955

dud sge try to kill herself the other day?

>> No.3839163

genre fiction is what my teacher in novel writing said we weren't allowed to do for our 20,000 word project. "no detective stories. no war stories. no martial arts stories. and," looking right at me, "NO SCIENCE FICTION."

right, i thought, i'll fix your little red wagon, bitch. submitted 26,000 words of a novel that danced about on the border of magic realism, then after she'd graded it i said "HA, IT WAS SCIENCE FICTION ALL THE TIME!"

>> No.3839171

Is literary fiction a genre?

>> No.3839176 [DELETED] 

>>3837197

not OP, but

>implying JG Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, Anthony Burgess, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, and Aldous Huxley are not literature

Come on anon.

Come on

It really is a marketing ploy.

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>implying there is anything that does not fall into one genre or another