Thread: The Guardian click-bait - Get real. Terry Pratchett is not a literary genius
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Old 08-31-2015, 11:30 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
"Significance" is indeed hard to define. Look on any list of "great writers in the English language", however, and you'll almost certainly find Austen on that list, along with authors like Shakespeare, Dickens, Trollope, Woolfe, and so on. All these authors are taught in English Literature courses as examples of "great writing" in the English language. I'm sure you could name equivalent examples in the Finnish language.

Do you think that universities will be teaching Pratchett alongside Shakespeare, Dickens, and Austen in English Literature courses in 100 years' time?
You seem to be talking about canonical which is not the same thing as significant.

Finnish?
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