[lit-ideas] Re: On Nip Thievery
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:29:24 -0230
"Burgeoning." I meant that there is today a burgeoning philosophical literature
on ..." (Although the other statement is also true.)
Apologies for the Freudian strip,
Walter O.
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> Julie Krueger wrote
>
> > Ah, the heady, intoxicating and slightly mad days of early summer when
> > dizzying heat and free days explode.
>
> David Ritchie and I would like to discuss this with you.
>
> > Just one question, though -- did War of the Worlds cease to be
> > literature (or take a hiatus from being literature?) when thousands of
> > people listening to it broadcast believed it to be factual? If so, what
> > restored it to literature-status? Is the category of "literature"
> > dependent on the reader, the author, reality as we or any one of us may
> > know it, static or fluid?
>
> You may be confusing literature with fiction, and as for fiction, that
> some people might believe that Huck Finn was a real person who floated
> down the Mississippi on a raft, doesn't entail that he was; or, more to
> the point, that a number of people think that in reading The Adventures
> of Huckleberry Finn, they're reading a true account of the adventures of
> a real person doesn't make TAOHF any the less fictional.
>
> Most prose fiction is literature (unless it's so awful as to not deserve
> the name) but not all literature is prose fiction?lyric poetry, Japanese
> haiku, parody and satire (which are by definition art forms parasitic on
> some underlying text, words, actions, whether or not these are prose or
> fiction), e.g. Well-written history, criticism, and 'memoirs' are surely
> literature.
>
> What is fiction? is a tougher question, for fictional works might
> include accounts of actual historical events, actual persons and places,
> and so on. There's much more to it than that, of course, but I'm about
> to freeze to death.
>
> Robert Paul,
> dreaming of Tahiti
>
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