This is what Eco did best: applying literary judgment to ephemera.
It is a genre that defies genre boundaries, embracing a range of writing from in-your-face horror through fantasy and science fiction to mainstream, the common element being the author's willingness to "surrender to the weird", to use the conventions of pulp fiction to locate literature, and to apply literary sophistication to genre landscapes.
Rockmore said he hoped to talk to literary colleagues to investigate if the mathematicians' formulae could be applied to literary criticism.
Ms. Gordon is working on "Reading Jesus," a book that will apply her literary training to the Gospels.
What he appreciated, in other words, was the genre's capacity for conveying intensity of sentiment and human experience within taut formal designs — a quality that might just as soon apply to literary fiction or poetry.
(The new expectations do not apply to literary novelists like Jeffrey Eugenides and Jonathan Franzen, who can publish a new novel approximately every decade and still count on plenty of high-profile book reviews to promote it).
This applies to "literary, dramatical, musical and artistic works, as well as with the typographical formats of published works"; it does not apply to infringement of broadcasts, sound recordings or film.
Stories that are thousands of years old, such as Noah, have been re-interpreted in film, applying familiar literary devices such as allegory and personification with new techniques such as CGI to explore big themes such as "human folly", good and evil, courage and despair, love, faith, and death - themes which have been a main-stay of entertainment across all its forms.
Found in Section 84 of the 1988 Act, the right to object to false attribution allows individuals to avoid being named on works they are not the author of, and applies to literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, as well as films.
