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Originally Posted by TGS
Well, I certainly acknowledge it. Are you claiming that professional literary critics and theorists have no more expertise than you or me or the bloke down the pub. We have, after all, all read novels, so we are all equally qualified to think analytically about them, is presumably the thinking, (to stretch the meaning of the word), going on with this kind of argument.
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The problem with thinking analytically about things is that even at our best the average person has personal bias in what they think is good or bad in terms of writing. We all have our own view on things which can lead to blind spots. After all we are only human. So what one person considers literary another might consider dull and uninteresting and what one person may consider a classic may also be considered literary by another person. Many books fit under several different descriptors in that way.