Students are often asked to read works of "Great Literature." They're assigned novels by giants like Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, and Dickens, and are told these works are considered "classic" or "important," and that they're somehow different from the vampire novels, crime thrillers, and comics that are read for fun. But at what point does fiction become literature? And who gets to decide which works make the cut?
At What Point Does a Novel Become Literature? | Mental Floss UK
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