Re:A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories
by ver_ture on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:09PM
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I would enjoy this different type of classifying genre, and smaller libraries or passionate stores could use both, scifi-identity, or adventure-isolation, mystery-family.
An interesting appliation would be Orson Scott Card's Ender series, which take a turn! Ender's Game? Perhaps scifi-responsibility, as that is the main issue Ender grapples with and has to decide. Speaker for the Dead? Scifi-empathy, and Andrew resolves inter-species traditions, and language, I think.
Children of the Mind might be about belonging, but the point is that this harder-to-create classification benefits readers 100x more. I might be contending with responsibility or empathy, and easily pick a book that will move me.
An interesting appliation would be Orson Scott Card's Ender series, which take a turn! Ender's Game? Perhaps scifi-responsibility, as that is the main issue Ender grapples with and has to decide. Speaker for the Dead? Scifi-empathy, and Andrew resolves inter-species traditions, and language, I think.
Children of the Mind might be about belonging, but the point is that this harder-to-create classification benefits readers 100x more. I might be contending with responsibility or empathy, and easily pick a book that will move me.