With more and more publishers using POD technology to keep
backlist titles in print, eveything's going to survive.
Al
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Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: letting time sort it
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Kerry wrote:
"Sorry Al, I can't answer this. Like I said off
the top, to me
"literature" is both the definition of all things
written, or the name
for another genre."
John Carey starts his book, What Good Are the
Arts?, with the premise
that art is anything anyone has ever said was
art. And he makes a very
convincing argument that there are no rational
reasons that one person's
definition, no matter how accredited that person,
is better than
another's.
However, the second half of the book is Carey's
argument that literature
is the greatest art. He offers standards by which
literature is better
than other arts, usually compared to music and/or
painting and
sculpture, mainly in its ability to argue and
debate. Unfortunately, he
never provides a rationale for why those are, or
should be, the
standards by which art is judged. Although he
occasionally throws in a
caveat that this is only his opinion, he seems to
be doing just what he
criticized everyone else of doing in the first
half of the book.
And Kerry, like you, I've been trying to think of
some crap that has
survived. Although I hated Dickens in high
school, I'm not ready to
dismiss him (and keep meaning to reread something
by him to see if I
just didn't get him at the time). The closest I
can come is something
that has survived because it is historically
important to the
development of a genre, but, at least for me,
pretty hard to slog
through -- Carroll John Daly.
Mark
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