Talk:Literature

Writer misinterpreting own work
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 18:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the misinterpreted author was Isaac Asimov - but it may be an "old chestnut". 212.85.6.26 (talk) 19:02, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps. Searching for Asimov “You are only the author” turns up an interesting item or two; I found nothing about it on snopes. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 19:30, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Popular literature
Sells: that is the problem literary criticism has with it. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 18:47, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I believe the critics prefer to say that it "sells out". 18:55, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * (EC) Except that you can very much write a Ph.D. dissertation in a lit department on Peanuts or some other popular writing. And the article as we have it now conflates disdain for the popular amongst lit crits with disdain for the living, which is not at all the same thing. most Nobel laureates in lit get the award while they're still breathing, and lit departments take Eco, Marquez, Cohen, Naiipul, Walcott, Morrison, Calvino, etc. etc. etc. pretty seriously. P-Foster (talk) 19:00, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

"Science-Related Literature"
I added a section about "Science-related literature" (for lack of a better title; please change it if you have a better idea) for the interest of RW readers, and because I feel a lot of math and science related works are severely neglected. Feel free to add your own.

I don't want this to be a little cubby-hole for Fandom as much as a place for people to get started thinking about fictional versions of scientific subjects. Not all science fiction exactly jumps off the page, and most of it simply uses science as a trope for a magical solution to all problems. I thought it might be best to try to keep Physics and Math in the foreground. Keep this in mind.

If you add David Foster Wallace I will come to your house, burn your entire book collection and restock according to actual quality.--Asklepius (talk) 23:40, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Someone doesn't like this
And I don't think I do, either. 20:25, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

I'm confused
Why don't George Gamow and Terry Pratchett count? —ClickerClock (talk) 04:09, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

I apologise, you can keep them on there if you want. Gamow is known more as a physicist rather than a novelist though.--Thomas Tallis (talk) 05:11, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. —ClickerClock (talk) 05:12, 5 April 2018 (UTC)