I think future scholars will appreciate the referential-ness. Not sure about everyone else.
Thinking about this, the broader cultural awareness of Shakespeare/Austen/Dickens is largely based on modern adaptations -- so another criterion to consider is adaptability to other media. With today's media, this means that plot, character, and character interactions are more important than other features of an author (such as narrative voice -- which is why I disagree with LBS).
However, it's hard to predict what will be most successfully adapted in the future -- because in the medium term, adaptations require getting the IP rights from whoever controls them, and in the long term we don't know what sorts of future media will emerge as vehicles for adaptations of print works.
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Date: 2014-10-24 08:08 pm (UTC)Thinking about this, the broader cultural awareness of Shakespeare/Austen/Dickens is largely based on modern adaptations -- so another criterion to consider is adaptability to other media. With today's media, this means that plot, character, and character interactions are more important than other features of an author (such as narrative voice -- which is why I disagree with LBS).
However, it's hard to predict what will be most successfully adapted in the future -- because in the medium term, adaptations require getting the IP rights from whoever controls them, and in the long term we don't know what sorts of future media will emerge as vehicles for adaptations of print works.