The Importance of Literary Trash :: Personal Narrative Essays

The Importance of Literary nut   Ive heard it said that the goal of serious literature is to illumine the homophile condition. If that is the case, the error of serious literature is that it is far too simple-minded and attempts to illuminate the human condition by portraying it directly. The big(p) strength of myth, fabrication and their modern-day successor trashy genre fiction is that they dont just manoeuver us the human condition, but interpret, highlight and contrast it by cover us the larger than life symbols. The courage and romance that totallyows us to detain and to savor daily life are the core of myth and genre. there they are made larger than life and inspire us to plan to a greatness that goes beyond simple daily experience.   The other failing of modern serious literature is the failing of all modern device art for arts sake. Modern art far too frequently is nil more than the artist showing off the techniques they would use if they were ever to pull in a true work of art. And so we see the sense of blazon that they would use if they ever a picture and so on. Technique becomes all important and content is eschewed as distracting from the true art, meaning the simple skills and techniques.   An raillery of this great art for art mistake is that one of its first and some eloquent spokesmen, Theophile Gautier, put forth his position in the introduction of his quixotic novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, whose title character whose adventurous life would piss a rip-roaring and thoroughly trashy adventure novel, if only the causality had wished to actually tell a story. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, in her introduction to Amazons II, gives us a two-page summary of the life, loves, and adventures of the historical La Maupin, actress, duelist and lover that is both exciting and tantalizing, and which has at least as much plot in its 2 pages as Gautiers novel.     Stephen Donalson claimed at the second World Fantasy exp ression (or was it the third?) that he never read any non-fiction because all of the great insights that people told him they got from non-fiction works he had found long before in fictional tales. From context, it was clear that much of that fiction was fantasy and science fiction. trance I wont go as far as Donalson, his point is uniform to my own.