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Author: LordGro

Jan 16th 2013 at 1:22:50 PM

^^ I'd prefer to keep the Mock-heroic genre separate. I also deliberately excluded all chivalric (''Literature/OrlandoFurioso''), historical (''Literature/{{Pharsalia}}''), and religious (''Literature/ParadiseLost'') epics.

^ My suggestion was not to limit {{Legend}}, but make it example-less. The whole works list would have to go. There would only be links to the relevant genres to which these works belong.

I earlier said somewhere that Legend is a genre, but it really isn't [with the one exception of Legends of Saints -- because these started as a written genre to begin with]. Or if it is, then it's a very broad super-genre. I don't think it makes much sense to collect so different works as Sanskrit epics, Greek tragedies, ''Literature/TheLifeOfMilarepa'' and "Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin" on one page.

The right place to list all the works that are recognized as "source works" for a specific mythology is IMHO the relevant mythology page. I.e. ClassicalMythology collects all Greco-Roman works that deal with Greco-Roman mythology and legend, without reduplicating the selfsame list on the {{Legend}} page under a subdivision "Classical Mythology". For I feel that is slightly redundant.