Text 1: Critic Park argues that genre fiction — mysteries, thrillers, romances, science fiction — has been unjustly excluded from serious literary consideration. The conventions that define a genre, she contends, are not weaknesses but tools; the best genre work uses them with the same intention that literary fiction brings to its own conventions of character and theme.
Text 2: Critic Singh agrees that genre fiction deserves serious attention but warns against simply collapsing the categories. Genre conventions create reading pleasures — suspense, satisfying closure, recognizable types — that depend on those conventions being honored; literary fiction often works precisely by frustrating such conventions. The two traditions overlap, but they pursue different aims.
The authors most clearly disagree about
- A
whether mysteries and romances are genres.
- B
whether genre fiction deserves serious attention.
- Ccheck_circle
whether genre conventions and literary conventions should be regarded as essentially the same kind of thing.
- D
whether genre fiction has been read by many people.
Explanation
Both accept that genre fiction deserves serious attention. They differ on whether to collapse the distinction. B captures the dispute.