Strangely enough, my resident english major's current internship is reviewing books, and a few of them have been classfied as "literary." (One, I think, mostly because it had very long descriptive passages and was set in future Russia. Another was "literary" despite the fact that it involved a guy being possessed by an evil interdimensional hotel... don't ask me, that sounded like more humor than anything, but apparently it wasn't.) However, a lot of the attempts at "literary" fiction that she's reviewed have been subpar, whereas the stuff with more fantasy or sci-fi elements has been better written, with better plots.
There are so many reasons that I'm not an English major, and the fact that I'd be thrown out for these sentiments is only one of them. :)
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Date: 2014-05-07 02:15 pm (UTC)There are so many reasons that I'm not an English major, and the fact that I'd be thrown out for these sentiments is only one of them. :)