EPTOn March 03 2014 06:29 zulu_nation8 wrote:
You have this perception that aesthetic value has a purely formal criteria, based on narrative structure, variety, etc. It's a lot more complex than that, hence I mentioned aesthetic value is aesthetic and not intellectual.
How are one-book authors and one-hit artists treated differently? I still don't see it.
You have this perception that aesthetic value has a purely formal criteria, based on narrative structure, variety, etc. It's a lot more complex than that, hence I mentioned aesthetic value is aesthetic and not intellectual.
How are one-book authors and one-hit artists treated differently? I still don't see it.
Well so far, even with the fringe authors, usually they are somewhat celebrated. 1 hit wonder musicians tend to get derided as what has been aptly described here as being a fluke.
