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   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article   
   <2977d09b-bc13-4555-bd66-3a8331e027c4@q5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,   
    Bill Patterson  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Yeah.  The whole construct of "art" fiction versus "commercial"   
   > fiction has pretty blurry boundaries.  I don't recall the matter as   
   > being at issue at all until the Mandariins came about in the late 19th   
   > century.  And, of course, Northrup Frye says that the pool of   
   > "subliterary" work provides the forms for the next wave(s) of prestige   
   > literary forms.   
      
   Shakesphere was all commercial fiction.   
      
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