Kerry Schooley wrote:
I think that's a bit of a post-modern cliché¬ and one that
conveniently lets writers off the hook. Do we forget that a
lot of the books we're now calling literary originally
appeared in the popular, pulp press? And why should people
have to recognize good from bad writing?
************ The idea that plot doesn't matter was big with
the modernists. We have the postmoderns to thank for
extinguishing all those terrible grand narratives and
pointing out the shocking truth about the dubious nature of
language in describing reality.
miker
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