Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks

Keeping the Canon Dim and Dull

American novelist Nicholas Sparks ranks among the 1 best sellers of today with 14 novels in 13 years four of them adapted in film and put his authorship in a bigger mainstream . With Kevin Costner as Garrett Blake in Message in a Bottle (1999 , Mandy Moore as Jamie Sullivan in A Walk to Remember (2002 , and Richard Gere as Dr . Paul Flanner in Nights to Rodanthe (2008 , it became far easier for the name to leave a commercial mark and drop some familiarity among

young and old alike

But can commercial success lift a writer 's distinction in the literary world ? What exactly makes a canon ? To put it simply , is Nicholas Sparks a canon writer

The word canon itself becomes trite these days with the plethora of websites from Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter that treat just any bit of hype to be a canon . Both created history in bestseller and box office but of the two is universally ' considered as a literary canon although LotR is considered to father the modern fantasy stories

According to Stevens , literary canons are not just worthy of serious academic attention they have also become celebrated names ' holding some measure of universal acclaim . They are too many in history Shakespeare and his magnum opera would be the most obvious to mention Of course , who does not know the Dickensonian Ebenezer Scrooge , Oliver Twist , David Copperfield or even Fagin ? In the romantic genre...