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802174 No.802174 [Reply] [Original]

Either all books are literature, or none are.

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>>802174

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>> No.802290

Okay. But they're not all SERIOUS LITERATURE.

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>>802290
>implying that's an objective value

>> No.802295

>>802174
all writing could be considered literature. We tend to organize it into different genres and judge it based on its content though.

>> No.802297

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_book

>> No.802304

Biblion, livro, livre, liber

>> No.802308

I read the in Harrison Ford's voice and it was fucking badass.

>> No.802369

>>802174
why two extremes?

>either live in the bottom of ocean or up in the skies?
why two extremes? why not live on land?

>> No.802374

Harrison Ford is nothing but reaction images.

>> No.802380

There is no logical, coherent, objective standard by which to determine whether a book is literature or not.

Therefore, 'literature' is useless as a category, and OP's statement is true.

>> No.802390

There are movies, then there's film, then there's cinema.

books, novels, literature.

Dan Brown is not a novelist, he only writes books.

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I have solved your fucking riddle OP

literature = art

art = didactic

Therefore,

all didactic books = literature

>> No.802523

>>802390

He writes novels you stupid twat.

>> No.802532

>>802523
>I enjoy his books

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>>802523
>I think Dan Brown is a competent novelist and I enjoy every book he writeserpadurr

>> No.802549

>>802390

Well since he writes books but not novels, he must write encyclopedias and biographies, right?

>> No.802556

>>802549

European Travel Guides.

>> No.802559

>>802556
badumtsh

>> No.802562

wHY?

>> No.802567

Including non-fiction?

>> No.802588

>>802567
Although you do have a point, it's just that what is literature or not is absurdly subjective. I think it's an useless definition, just as the definition of evil.

>> No.802604

Literature, literally translated, means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter), and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters (as in the phrase "Arts and Letters"). In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and nonfiction.
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everything is text