ENG 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Station Eleven, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10 Sep 2017
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Best selling genres (2015, print books only, adult fiction market share) Lev grossman, literary revolution in the supermarket aisle . An artistic hierarchy ranks works of art. Two kinds of artistic hierarchies: those that rank particular works of art (e. g. painting x is better than painting y), those that rank entire genres or art forms (e. g. painting is better than poetry) To study genre fiction, we need to move beyond the tendency to argue that literary fiction is entirely better than genre fiction. We should pour myrrh of his head, crown him with wreaths, and send him away to another city. Sculpture shows with little labour what in painting appears a miraculous thing to do; to make what is impalpable appear palpable, flat objects appear in relief, distant objects seem close. In fact painting is adorned with infinite possibilities which sculpture cannot command. leonardo da vinci, ca. Now tell me which is the nearer to the.
