Post B6t2IkoF7SOSYn4Paq by acb@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B6stVC2Cp6L6swSRlo by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       Can Bad People Write Good Books?Can we still appreciate great novels when we know their author behaved despicably?By Gina Dalfonzohttps://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/literature/can-bad-people-write-good-booksLittle Dorit at PG:https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/963#Books #Literature #LiteraryCriticism
       
 (DIR) Post #B6stzApNsHfVpVkxNY by raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie
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       @gutenberg_org Sometimes.Also good people can write nasty or abysmal books."Good" has two meanings in the application to describing media.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6syC336VSx1HmZIHI by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       @raymaccarthy very true!!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6t0QUigcl574F2CDA by acb@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org How one squares one’s appreciation of problematic artist’s works with their actions is between them and their conscience. After the artist is dead and the works in the public domain, it becomes much less of an issue: here, knowing and keeping alive the fact that he was a POS to his wife in reading them would IMHO suffice.(See also: Lovecraft, whose conceptualisation of horror has essentially become a talking point about the nature of xenophobia.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B6t1uXWypviWQaRvnM by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       @acb I totally agree with you although some literary critics still emphasize such bad behaviors.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6t2IkoF7SOSYn4Paq by acb@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org The cadaver synod school of literary criticism
       
 (DIR) Post #B6t4hcSPVdEZnvqJ0a by 12thRITS@mstdn.social
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       @gutenberg_org They can, they have, they will. Standards change. That Geoffrey Chaucer:  what a jerk!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6tF8ZtEA6wJCZsb6u by mHtt@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org splitting humans into good and bad is such an elementary and comic book take on reality.its a false dichotomy.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6tJqsF7gcEGgJUyCe by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       @mHtt Agreed!