mrt wrote:
...How about we just discuss "books" or "texts"? Let's leave
the larger masturbatory metadiscussions in the hands of those
who can profit by them. This list deals with a large genre
(crime fiction) and its various subgenres. It does not deal
with the meaning of life or the endless possibilities,
classifications and critical approaches to "any text".
Sorry to disagree with authority's "not" here, but-well, of
course it does. One cannot discuss texts intelligently while
placing certain aspects of them or what they touch, however
potentially tangential, off limits. That's fandom, not
discourse. (Maybe the meaning of life has something to do
with a pack of rabid deconstructionists biting an enemy ass
while Hammett's niece watches?)
Rob
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