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[quote=Anonymous]Ok if you’re actually interested in this, I’d really suggest reading the New Yorker piece linked above or at least doing a little bit more reading of critique. There are a lot of grey areas and schools of thought and areas of disagreement, of course, but many of the posts here are just…not correct. The debate is way more complex than that. It’s very silly to say that literary fiction is just “fiction that got a bunch of high brow awards,” for instance. Or just a marketing scheme. For instance, there’s one school of thought that breaks fiction into four schools (not just literary vs genre): novel, romance, anatomy, confession. Romances (which predate the novel!) are drive by character archetypes whereas novels are driven by plot…etc etc. See the piece for more. It’s really interesting stuff! [/quote]
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