Today’s Zits:
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Kids these days! Did Pierce never think to look at the Wikipedia entry for the book? I thought that’s what kids do first when assigned a book report.
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
Books and their covers
April 30, 2018Trademark literary forms
May 10, 2014From Lee Siegel’s “Pure Evil”, on “Jo Nesbø and the rise of Scandinavian crime fiction”, in the latest (May 12th) New Yorker:
about a hundred Scandinavian crime writers have been translated into English, including Anne Holt, who is a former minister of justice in Norway. The crime tale has become to Scandinavia what the sonnet was to Elizabethan England: its trademark literary form.
It’s entertaining to consider what might count as the trademark literary form in other places, at other times, and in other sociocultural contexts.
(Note: the New Yorker piece is behind a paywall; the beginning is available here.)