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10 months ago
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The big idea: should we abolish literary genres?

Hilary Mantel recalls the beginnings of her career as a novelist in her Reith lecture of 2017.
Mantel struggled to get her historical fiction novel, A Place of Greater Safety, published due to the lack of interest in the French Revolution as a topic.
Mantel criticizes the idea of genre and labels in literature, calling them confining and meaningless. [ more ]
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the Guardian
10 months ago
Books

The big idea: should we abolish literary genres?

Hilary Mantel recalls the beginnings of her career as a novelist in her Reith lecture of 2017.
Mantel struggled to get her historical fiction novel, A Place of Greater Safety, published due to the lack of interest in the French Revolution as a topic.
Mantel criticizes the idea of genre and labels in literature, calling them confining and meaningless. [ more ]
the Guardian
10 months ago
Books

The big idea: should we abolish literary genres?

Hilary Mantel recalls the beginnings of her career as a novelist in her Reith lecture of 2017.
Mantel struggled to get her historical fiction novel, A Place of Greater Safety, published due to the lack of interest in the French Revolution as a topic.
Mantel criticizes the idea of genre and labels in literature, calling them confining and meaningless. [ more ]
the Guardian
10 months ago
Books

The big idea: should we abolish literary genres?

Hilary Mantel recalls the beginnings of her career as a novelist in her Reith lecture of 2017.
Mantel struggled to get her historical fiction novel, A Place of Greater Safety, published due to the lack of interest in the French Revolution as a topic.
Mantel criticizes the idea of genre and labels in literature, calling them confining and meaningless. [ more ]
the Guardian
10 months ago
Books

The big idea: should we abolish literary genres?

Hilary Mantel recalls the beginnings of her career as a novelist in her Reith lecture of 2017.
Mantel struggled to get her historical fiction novel, A Place of Greater Safety, published due to the lack of interest in the French Revolution as a topic.
Mantel criticizes the idea of genre and labels in literature, calling them confining and meaningless. [ more ]
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