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defining the superhero genre
Sep. 10th, 2021 09:22 pmIt has its interesting aspects.
For one thing -- well, you can define an epic as a "lengthy narrative poem." You can define a lyric as a "short poem expressing emotions." But you have to define a sonnet as "a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes,". Superheroes face much the same problem.
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For one thing -- well, you can define an epic as a "lengthy narrative poem." You can define a lyric as a "short poem expressing emotions." But you have to define a sonnet as "a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes,". Superheroes face much the same problem.
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