How many ...?

[Pike Bishop]

I take "literary" just to mean "concerned with literature" and when substitute the phrase for the term in what you wrote, it doesn't make sense to me.

"Works valued for their expression and form tend to be artistic and literary in their expression, although some realist writers and literary genre writers aren't particularly literary in their writing..."

works valued for their expression and form tend to be artistic and concerned with literature in their expression, although some realist writers and concerned with literature genre writers aren't particularly concerned with literature in their writing...

how are you meaning the term "literary?"

anyway---what do you say we turn this into a thread on the main forum?

You can take "literary" to mean anything you want, that doesn't make it so, nor does it make it fall in line with how the term is used in most literature departments. And your term is circular and redundant. If literary means "concerned with literature," and literature means "literary writing," then neither term means anything. So, again, unlike my accurate description, yours is way too broad and unsupported. And, of course, you can't substitute my phrase from my definition into your definition; they're not entirely compatible, and it would be fallacious and (unintentionally) arrogant to judge other definitions by how they gibe with yours. It assumes your definition is already correct before even addressing competing ones.

Finally, I thought I made it clear what I meant by literary in my analysis of LOTR: "And LOTR is not literature because there is nothing particularly artistic about the language, the structuring of the plot, or the innovation of the narrative." Those are consensually accepted standards by which most English professors, including myself, define literary fiction. Of course, the standards are different for poetry and drama, but they're not un-related. And, yes, I will be fine with continuing this on another thread if you wish to start it.



As to the pike question: None...I loathe fishing.

My question: Are there any geniuses/masters left in Jazz? If so, who?

[Pompey Bum]

How many pikes have you caught?

Only one, but hell, one's enough.

How many moose have you seen?

[Lykren]

Call me Mr. Zero (cos I keep answering that).

Have you seen any, Pompey?

How many chess variants/historical versions of the game can you name?

[North Star]

E: None.

My question: Are there any geniuses/masters left in Jazz? If so, who?

Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek come to mind. Sonny Rollins is alive and kicking, too, still.

Only one, but hell, one's enough.

How many moose have you seen?

Many a moose by the roads, one in meat and horns, shot by my brother.

How many TV series' are masterpieces, and which?

[bounty]

http://www.online-literature.com/for...uot-is-defined

[bounty]

(a moose once bit my sister...)

I led a bike trip in Alaska and we saw moose frequently, some really nifty experiences. they are almost like deer in the lower 48, they are all over the place. did a trip in Wyoming too and we saw some in Yellowstone.

oh boy---im far from the arbiter of whats a tv masterpiece! could I just get away with saying what my all time favorites are?

[Pompey Bum]

No really, moose bites can be serious.

(Go ahead).

[bounty]

smiles...

i think the wb series in the early 2000s, everwood, was the best thing on television. it was a family drama that dealt with real life issues (abortion, HIV, romance, teen-age angst, death, loss and daily life) in an amazingly intriguing and moving way. it all felt so real.

i think highly of a special forces show (nbc maybe?) right about the same time, the unit. the plots were fascinating and the stories left me hoping America has people like those the characters played in her service.

i enjoy survivor and lately (and id be happy to say why), ive become smitten with the voice.

so---2-4 for me maybe?

similar question---how many tv series/shows would you count as your favorites?
(id have to throw American restoration in there on that one)

[Pompey Bum]

I haven't watched much TV since Rocky and Bullwinkle.i have been watching The McLaughlin Group regularly since the 1980s, though. It just get funnier every week. And Masterpiece Theatre used to be good till it became Dowton Abbey. So I guess that's two and a half (unless you count F-Troop).

How many teeth have you had pulled?

[Lykren]

4 at once, wisdom. I was fully anesthetized, and given Vicodin after, but still it was no fun.

How many close friends do you have in real life whose interest in literature is roughly comparable to yours?

[North Star]

0 close friends interested in literature.

I liked Everwood, too.

My favourite TV series, apparently 11.

The Wire
All Creatures Great and Small (seasons 1-3 in particular)
Darling Buds of May (It's been downhill for Catherine Zeta-Jones ever since)
Frasier
Morse
House
Sherlock Holmes (Brett)
Sherlock
A Touch of Frost
Lewis
Poirot

Same question, how many, and which, favourite TV series

[bounty]

boris, ees moose and squirrel!

ive been fortunate to have 3 English faculty friends, and I would call them "close" in terms of our spirits and sympathies, but just not in shared life experiences and longevities. if I only count close friends by my latter terms, alas, it's zero, and much to my chagrin too!

how many books on your "im really looking forward to reading these" list?

[Lykren]

Don Quixote
Blood Wedding/The House of Bernarda Alba
100 Years of Solitude/Love in the Time of Cholera
Pedro Paramo
The Book of Disquiet
Days of Abandonment
My Struggle
The Man Without Qualities
Hedda Gabbler
My Name is Red
Hadji Murad
Selected Stories of Chekhov
Ada, or Ardor
Dear Life
Red Doc>
Mason & Dixon
Portrait of a Lady
Blood Meridian
Cathedral
Tender is the Night
The Thousand Nights and a Night
Silence
Complete Dickinson
Complete Stevens
Complete Heaney
Complete Auden
Complete Keats
Complete Blake
KJV, not JKV!

so 29.

[Pike Bishop]

Four:

Slade House by David Mitchell
The Blue Guitar by John Banville--the greatest living English/Irish novelist
Seven Eves by Neal Stephenson
The Peripheral by William Gibson

How many truly great novelists are alive today and who are they?

[Pompey Bum]

Literally hundreds.

Oh I liked All Creatures Great and Small, too, although only for the first two years (I think). Anyway, while Tristan was still there, and up until when James became a partner. After that, it seemed like a different (and not as good) show.

And it's "Boris dah-link," Bounty!

How many books that you couldn't finish do you plan to go back to someday?