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Thursday, March 22, 2007
the changing nature of language
As usual, I'll have a review over at It's Not Chick Porn.
Check this out. These panels make me think about the changing nature of language. I wonder how JR Ward's books will stand up in twenty years? Will her slang hopelessly date her? School kids today find Shakespeare all but unintelligible. English has changed a lot.
Are you more concerned with telling the story / entertaining than producing timeless literature? Do you think genre fiction has the capacity to transcend genre and become a classic? Can you think of any examples where it has? Name authors and titles for me please, ya'll.
I never read comics as a kid, but I'm starting to wish I had. My favorite is the Joker's Boner. What's yours?
Link courtesy of my husband, bored at work
Check this out. These panels make me think about the changing nature of language. I wonder how JR Ward's books will stand up in twenty years? Will her slang hopelessly date her? School kids today find Shakespeare all but unintelligible. English has changed a lot.
Are you more concerned with telling the story / entertaining than producing timeless literature? Do you think genre fiction has the capacity to transcend genre and become a classic? Can you think of any examples where it has? Name authors and titles for me please, ya'll.
I never read comics as a kid, but I'm starting to wish I had. My favorite is the Joker's Boner. What's yours?
Link courtesy of my husband, bored at work
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Once this brain fart passes, I'll probably think of a few more titles.
L.E. Bryce
I think genre can become a classic, and certainly a classic for future writers of the field. People just stop thinking of classics as anything but. As L.E. pointed out above, plus "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is fantasy. "Animal Farm" is socio-scifi perhaps... lots of classics fail to be anything but classic lit when they "make it". My favorite thing in high school was all the scifi I got to read under the guise of "for school"
I definitely write for the story. I doubt anything I ever put in print will count as "literature". It's the controversial or thought provoking material that usually ranks as literature, at least down the line.
www.SuperDickery.com Freaking hilarious site.
Anthony Burgess, "A Clockwork Orange" (although he very much creates his own language in this - one that had life imitating art)
Kurt Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"
I could go on and on, but these three were authors greatly influenced by the issues, language and cultural trends of their times, locations and reflect that in their stories.
oh and heyya Annie!