On 2/17/06, Snowspinner Snowspinner@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