though i would agree that fantasy should not be excluded from canonical literature i do think most of it pulp . this may be hard to see if all you read is fantasy but if you have a broader reading experience you will notice that most fantasy has cheap plot structure, clichematic characters and worlds and hilghy unimaginitive sentence structure and word use. it is also important to note that the literary community does not discriminates between different genres of novells, they talk about fictional, non fictional, prose epics, or poetry and don't mention wether it'mythological historical schi-fi or fantasy when evaluating the literary quality of the work. some fantasy has actually been accepted as literature. LOTR for example won some non sci-fi/fantasy related literary prizes, but most fantasy doesn't even come near the quality of LOTR in literary sence (no inovative use of language, no interesting underlying messages, no stylistic excentrisities, etc.) and thus aren't considered literature. even though i liked sci-fi/fantasy and still read some jack vance or larry niven occasionally i do see that they are rather crummy writers compared to most in more conventional definition of literature (and i'm not talking about dan brown, more like E.A. Poe or Jane Austin)
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though i would agree that fantasy should not be excluded from canonical literature i do think most of it pulp . this may be hard to see if all you read is fantasy but if you have a broader reading experience you will notice that most fantasy has cheap plot structure, clichematic characters and worlds and hilghy unimaginitive sentence structure and word use. it is also important to note that the literary community does not discriminates between different genres of novells, they talk about fictional, non fictional, prose epics, or poetry and don't mention wether it'mythological historical schi-fi or fantasy when evaluating the literary quality of the work. some fantasy has actually been accepted as literature. LOTR for example won some non sci-fi/fantasy related literary prizes, but most fantasy doesn't even come near the quality of LOTR in literary sence (no inovative use of language, no interesting underlying messages, no stylistic excentrisities, etc.) and thus aren't considered literature. even though i liked sci-fi/fantasy and still read some jack vance or larry niven occasionally i do see that they are rather crummy writers compared to most in more conventional definition of literature (and i'm not talking about dan brown, more like E.A. Poe or Jane Austin)
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