Noblesse Oblige We have in Plenty, but Precious Little Droit du Seigneur

[steepholm]

Did I mention that I've been dipping my toe into the world of authors and their pesky post-facto thoughts about books?

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't see that Rowling is doing anything different from any other author who writes a series of books set in the same universe and/or employing the same characters. I mean, no-one ever complained about John Buchan writing yet another yarn about Richard Hannay. All that's changed is that- instead of writing more books- Rowling is using media that weren't available to an earlier generation.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Then the question arises of when she is producing "another yarn", and when she is merely commenting on existing yarns - which of course anyone is free to do. It's not an easy distinction to make.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think it's interesting what Rowling is doing- and it's perhaps something that's never been done before- which is why people are disconcerted; she's produced a core text of seven novels- and now she's adding to it- embellishing it in all sorts of ways- with tweets and co-authored plays and screenplays and all sorts. I expect others will follow suit...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think it's interesting what Rowling is doing- and it's perhaps something that's never been done before- which is why people are disconcerted; she's produced a core text of seven novels- and now she's adding to it- embellishing it in all sorts of ways- with tweets and co-authored plays and screenplays and all sorts. I expect others will follow suit...