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389:, which is awarded to fiction in the English language. For both judges are selected from amongst leading literary critics, writers, academics and public figures. The Booker judging process and the very concept of a "best book" being chosen by a small number of literary insiders is controversial for many. Author 220:
Gunn also noted the difference between commercial and literary mainstreams, with the former meaning authors whose works are popular – high-selling bestsellers – and the latter, works seen as "art". He also noted that there is a contradiction between these, as "high sales
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commented, "It's not that SFF is a ghetto inside the glorious city of 'Literary Fiction', but the reverse. 'Literary' novels sell abominably badly, by and large; popular culture in the main belongs to SF and Fantasy, eighteen of the top twenty highest grossing movies of all time are SFF, everybody
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Until lately the West has regarded it as self-evident that the road to education lay through great books. No man was educated unless he was acquainted with the masterpieces of his tradition. There never was very much doubt in anybody's mind about which the masterpieces were. They were the books that
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lamented that "the category of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to write books, and if anybody wanted to read them, terrific, the more the merrier ... I'm a genre writer of a sort. I write literary fiction, which is like spy fiction or chick lit."
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noted that genre fans and critics criticize mainstream as mundane, with the term's "deliberate overtones of dullness, worldliness, and uninspired realism". He criticized mainstream fiction as becoming increasingly stagnant and marginalized. This view has been echoed by others; for example, British
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are sometimes termed "genres" without being considered genre fiction. Other authors are also seen as writing literary equivalents or precursors to established genres while still maintaining the division between commercial and literary fiction, such as the
413:, Updike argued that this term, when applied to his work, greatly limited him and his expectations of what might come of his writing, so he does not really like it. He suggested that all his works are literary, simply because "they are written in words." 243:: and writers who take the first two groups seriously". According to Gunn, the field of literary fiction in the United States is significantly framed by fiction of the early 20th century and classic canon made from works of authors such as 783: 350:(1869), as "the disinterested endeavour after man's perfection" pursued, obtained, and achieved by effort to "know the best that has been said and thought in the world". Such a literary definition of high culture also includes 225:" and left the literary mainstream. He further defined the literary mainstream as "dominated by the academic-literary community—university professors of literature; high-powered critics for prestige publications such as the 275:" are closely related concepts, but they are not necessarily synonymous. A "canon" refers to a list of books considered to be "essential" and is presented in a variety of ways. It can be published as a collection, such as 393:
wrote: "The idea that a 'book of the year' can be assessed annually by a bunch of people – judges who have to read almost a book a day – is absurd, as is the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer."
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wrote that "The SF community uses the word mainstream to describe the fiction that is getting the attention they want; the word is a confession that SF is felt to be a sidestream, a tributary.
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Some critics and genre authors have posited significant overlap between literary and commercial fiction, citing major literary figures argued to have employed elements of popular genres such as
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notes, "literary fiction, by its nature, allows itself to dawdle, to linger on stray beauties even at the risk of losing its way." Other works may be more concerned with
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has frequently been awarded to the authors of literary fiction. This annual award is presented to a writer from any country who has, in the field of
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defined literary fiction as "a tradition that had been and remained stubbornly indifferent to, if not proudly ignorant of, the progress of science".
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direction. Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, the award is based on an author's body of work as a whole.
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is a similar British award given for outstanding literary fiction translated into English. This complements the earlier
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and complexity of the writing: Saricks describes literary fiction as "elegantly written, lyrical, and ... layered".
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had endured and that the common voice of mankind called the finest creations, in writing, of the Western mind.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, "Popular Fiction Studies: The Advantages of a New Field".
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Label in literature describing hard-to-categorize, often character-driven, fiction
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merit. Literary fiction is commonly regarded as artistically superior to
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The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing
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is sometimes located in between the genre and non-genre fictions.
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Critics and readers of mainstream fiction have been accused of "
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proposed high culture as a force for moral and political good.
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Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity
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A Beginner's Guide to Literary Fiction" | NY Book Editors
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Index

Mainstream fiction
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genre fiction
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crime fiction
romance
historical fiction
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autobiographical novels
encyclopedic novels
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