I was using the Wikipedia definition quoted above (post 395). I will continue with that for the rest of the game. For future games, however, I would prefer that we use my definition or EH’s:
(I would also exclude songs, play and movie scripts, comic books/graphic novels, and advertising.)
They rule out judgment calls like “critically acclaimed” or of “lasting importance.”
Captain, who was a metaphor for Lincoln in “O Captain! My Captain!” by Whitman.
An example of something that various definitions of ‘literature’ would classify differently, as short published poetry that was critically acclaimed and is often studied in schools.
DQ: would your name have a non-capitalized entry in a typical English language dictionary?
Should cover animal names like Crow or Coyote, characters referred to by a characteristic like the Cowboy or the Condemned, characters named for a virtue like Courage or Compassion.
I’m not any of those people, whoever they are. That would be three DQs, but…
C
Fictional
Male
American
Name starts with C
Not primarily known from visual media
Would not be alive today, if real
From literature, as defined in Wikipedia
Human
Not associated with NYC
Would probably have died before 1941, if real
Considered a “good guy” (though a lot of people were really annoyed in the end :D)
Not Scifi/Fantasy genre
Protagonist
Not from a work written after 1950
Not also known by any other name within the fiction
Not crime/Mystery genre
Appeared in only a single work
Not known by an epithet or title (such as Captain, Chief, Colonel)
Written before 1900
My name would not have a non-capitalized entry in a typical English language dictionary
Not well- or best-known for my love of someone else
Aaaand … there we go! Everyone who was given a DQ in this round (Tim, KO, EH, and the Prof) gets one last DQ, in the form “Are you Firstname Lastname?”
and use it yourself?