JIM DOHERTY said, among other things:
>>On the other hand, as William has pointed out, if
some
people are too small-minded to see the worth of a Hammett, or
a Chandler, or a Conan Doyle, or, for that matter, a
Spillane, so what?
>>Why should we care? As far as I'm concerned,
the
whole question of whether or not crime fiction is literature
is settled. We won.<<
I'm not sure who "we" is, but I'm also not sure that whether
Crime Fiction can be literature has been our question. The
question is, I think, WHICH pieces of crime fiction are
literature, and which authors do others as well as we on Rara
consider literature?
Remember that part of the m-w definition of literature:
"Writings having excellence of form or expression and
expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest."
Hammett and Chandler have already made the grade, at least I
think they have. I'd bet dollars to dimes, that most on Rara
consider them lierature.
Jack Bludis
__________________________________________________ Do You
Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 04 Nov 2007 EST