Hi All--
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> MEH wrote:
>
> "But sad to say, from what I've seen on a variety of
boards and email
> lists dedicated to Edgar RIce Burroughs, Robert E.
Howard, H. P.
> Lovecraft, and Sword and Sorcery fiction, there are
very vocal people
> out there who accept anything in the genre or any
pastiche and believe
> its all good."
>
> But that's a difference of taste, not level of
engagement. I was just
> pointing out that being entertained is not
necessarily, is not usually,
> a passive pursuit.
>
Exactly. One small correction, however; you wrote, "Virginia
Radway's studies of readers of romance novels," but it was
_Janice_ Radway.
Metta, Ivan
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