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Originally Posted by HarryT
Can you give an example of an author who you'd regard as having been labelled "literary", but not "innovative"?
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To be honest, I don't know any authors who have been labeled as "literary." I don't recognize the validity of any such label that tries to use "literature" in a high-brow, genre-like manner (i.e. this author is romance, and this author is literary). Calling a book/author "literary" is a redundantly pointless distinction in my opinion. Therefore, I use what the past has decided is a "literary classic" as my (very loose) definition. Which is why I have no qualms claiming that Classic Literature is rife with uninnovative, but still beloved, works. Name your own. You can easily do so, if you divorce yourself from your preconceived notions that "Literary" is somehow inexorably tied to academia. Me naming something that you then dismiss as un-literary (with personal criteria) would be quite pointless.