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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
[...]Now HarryT, I have a question. Can you define great literature?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
[...]Either way, the future will judge whether or not your work is great literature.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
[...] Art and Meaning, not Entertainment and Sales.
(The important points are much different for non-fiction or targeted commercial works - particularly for the mass market)
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Kenny, I think your definition probably works for "literature", but I think Harry's summary, quoted above, is the only viable definition for "great literature". Striving doesn't make it so, as much as we might like to hope that it did.