Genre WAS: That Bloody Man Again

[pippin_999]

> > Pippin
> > wondering what the Faith contingent thinks of Jo's admission that
> > she's subverting the fantasy genre
> > http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005
/0705-time-grossman.htm

Nora:
> You mean the same article that has had god know how many people's 
> knickers in a twist for its profoundly shallow and inaccurate 
> characterization of the current state of the fantasy genre? :)
> 

Pippin:
*She* didn't characterize the fantasy genre that way, the author of
the article did. As far as I know, she stands by the quote.

You don't need to be up on modern fantasy to satirize the genre.
Cervantes reads just as well as a parody of Star Wars and LOTR as
it does of Le Morte Darthur.

I assume she's read Cervantes. And acres and acres of folk tales.
And Narnia. And Pullman. And  the Alchemical whatsit. She's  spent 
decades  working this stuff out.  Whatever she is, she's not naive.

Pippin