Author
Storskog; Camilla Carita
Year
2023
Publisher
Kriterium
Type
BOOK
Category
Comics & Graphic Novels
Language
English
Pages
29
ISBN
978-9-18936-112-6
Last Update
24-Mar-2026
Keywords
Language & Literature
Most reflections on what characterises a ‘classic’ work of art contain a paradox. Contributions to the discussion over the last fifty years have continued to stress the controversy in attempts to award classic status to literary works by a readership torn between retromania and a hunger for novelty, reluctant to accept arbiters of taste, but at the same time avid consumers of ratings and rankings.¹¹ According to Anders Olsson, the concept of a ‘classic’ is, indeed, encapsulated in a hierarchy of contradictions.¹² Not only do we speak of major classics and minor classics, great classics and modern classics, but, in...
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