tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post3874576819735996322..comments2024-01-17T09:43:44.882-06:00Comments on The Frugal Chariot: Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-8359918379473041562012-06-08T11:34:48.860-06:002012-06-08T11:34:48.860-06:00Thanks for your comment. Your blog sounds wonderf...Thanks for your comment. Your blog sounds wonderful.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-37325217101438986282011-06-28T12:29:30.836-06:002011-06-28T12:29:30.836-06:00Thanks for your comment. How true that there a th...Thanks for your comment. How true that there a those books that have changed history. Reminds me of Voltaire.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-43285646977096843322011-06-28T11:38:22.652-06:002011-06-28T11:38:22.652-06:00Interesting response, and doesn't it always se...Interesting response, and doesn't it always seem to return to that ever elusive definition of literature? :)<br /><br />I agree with Listener, I think the question is over secondary agendas, other than just to tell a story or present a character.<br /><br />Although I'm not convinced that that alone makes them less timeless. Depending on the magnitude of the change they affect, it may MedSchoolWifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00745408218333024946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-10246921576728688102011-06-24T15:46:14.262-06:002011-06-24T15:46:14.262-06:00Thanks for your astute observation. The more I rea...Thanks for your astute observation. The more I read the more I realize how true that is.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-85927125073405400462011-06-24T14:41:03.782-06:002011-06-24T14:41:03.782-06:00Good response. I'm also not sure what literat...Good response. I'm also not sure what literature would look like without an agenda. I think writers write to teach, about something, a time or place, even if it is imagined, and to teach us about ourselves.<br /><br /><a href="http://hawthornescarlet.blogspot.com/2011/06/two-literary-things-literary-blog-hop.html" rel="nofollow">Here is my post (and a literary giveaway!)</a>LBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08565867574821169945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-45932467342227911882011-06-24T11:05:44.871-06:002011-06-24T11:05:44.871-06:00Thanks for your comment. You made a good point an...Thanks for your comment. You made a good point and to the extent that books are tracts rather than timeless works of art they may be less literary (perhaps not worthy of being considered literature at all).Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231952.post-80797475574475762662011-06-24T10:26:19.869-06:002011-06-24T10:26:19.869-06:00Visiting via the Literary Blog Hop.
I agree that ...Visiting via the Literary Blog Hop.<br /><br />I agree that all literature has some agenda, but I think the question is looking at books with a "clear agenda", in other words books that set out to change peoples' thoughts about a topic, like Uncle Tom's Cabin or The Jungle. To use your definition of literature, I think the focus of these types of books on a specific goal makes Sayethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921075981432007616noreply@blogger.com