Obviously the difference is intent, and his examples are retarded. Fantasy serves pure entertainment and maybe some sociopolitical trite. Fucking Hamlet and Macbeth were meant to be mimesis on human behavior through the authors own insight and flourish. A work can have fantasy elements but primarily serve a much deeper intent.
Is literary fiction a genre?
Ethan Wood
David James
March 29:
>But I’m a mess. I’m such a mess. And I’m behind on everything. And the writing isn’t going well.
Source: blog.patrickrothfuss.com
Jonathan Diaz
Veeky Forumstards BTFO. I've always claimed that fantasy fiction is the backdrop and precursor to all moral truths and lessons. Veeky Forumstards would rather read about some unfalsifiable philosophical bullshit though
Parker Ortiz
>he's STILL writing it
hahaha holy shit this guy is a retard
Nathan Mitchell
>literature with fantasy elements
so... fantasy?
James Kelly
could you make the case for saying that stuff that is not genre fiction is still in a genre of its own?
like the Veeky Forums equivalent of slice-of-life books
Luis Hall
The problem is stupid people can't make the distinction between setting and genre. You can create a work of fiction set in a fantasy setting with any number of genres. Fantasy as a setting is something completely different from fantasy as a genre, one distinction being that fantasy genre novels are necessarily absolute garbage.
Xavier Nelson
I always thought (and still do) that non-fiction was a subgenre of fiction; because reality couldn't be a book.
Like the X-files is based on 'true stories/events' and so is the news. But the news claims it's true.
Fiction knows it's fiction and non-fiction also knows that but vows a vow of truth.
A..am I retarded, genius, normal or [insert your own]?
Christopher Hill
you are a very average level of stupid
Julian Peterson
You're not wrong per se, it just happens that non-fiction is literally all books that aren't fiction, so say, logic textbooks would be non-fiction.