Criticism and the Romance Genre WAS RE: A Lot of Plot

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" <erebstock at c...> wrote:
>
> Barry:
> > Blaming genre when you suspect that the author could do better is a
> cop-
> > out.
> 
> Yes, particularly when the literary successes of each generation are
> often enough based on tweaking the accepted genre rules. In this
> respect, I've just remembered that JKR herself expressed this quite well
> in the interview with Emerson Spartz and Melissa Anelli. She quoted
> Dorothy Sayers as saying that a romantic intrigue in a detective novel
> can only properly function as a cover for something else, but that
> Sayers herself had broken that very convention. 

Pippin:
If I'm right about Lupin, then actually JKR hasn't broken that particular
convention at all, and was grinning to herself as she pulled off a spectacular
double bluff  right under the noses of some of the most involved readers
she has.

Pippin