On 2/17/06, Snowspinner <Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
NOR has long been a bit slippery with fiction, both popular and
literary. The problem is that by the most hardline interpretation of
NOR, plot summaries of novels aren't allowed.
Not QUITE true; paraphrasing other people's citeable plot summaries
would be allowed.
Unfortunately (or
fortunately, depending on your perspective), bending NOR for
fictional texts has led to things like the "in popular culture"
sections. But unbending it is its own sort of problematic.
Ugh, yes.
-Matt