"The subject matter of a pure literary piece is secondary and, ideally, mundane."
This is an interesting, albeit unsurprising, designation. I say that because I feel like the absolute mundanity or complete lack of plot in literary fiction is a relatively recent determination. For one thing, the literary classics that literary style is der…
"The subject matter of a pure literary piece is secondary and, ideally, mundane."
This is an interesting, albeit unsurprising, designation. I say that because I feel like the absolute mundanity or complete lack of plot in literary fiction is a relatively recent determination. For one thing, the literary classics that literary style is derived from was almost always extremely plot-based. I'd go even further to say that the divorce of literary style from plot in "pure" literary fiction was likely a large factor in why readership declined so greatly towards the end of the last century and continues to do so.
Write beautifully about interesting things. Otherwise you're just an author trying to flex on mundanity.
"The subject matter of a pure literary piece is secondary and, ideally, mundane."
This is an interesting, albeit unsurprising, designation. I say that because I feel like the absolute mundanity or complete lack of plot in literary fiction is a relatively recent determination. For one thing, the literary classics that literary style is derived from was almost always extremely plot-based. I'd go even further to say that the divorce of literary style from plot in "pure" literary fiction was likely a large factor in why readership declined so greatly towards the end of the last century and continues to do so.
Write beautifully about interesting things. Otherwise you're just an author trying to flex on mundanity.
It’s the art school mentality.