Unlike others of his generation, who broke the mould of literary form by experimenting with modernism, Forster's genius was quieter.

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Scripts for comics are arguably a literary form in exactly the same way that film and theater scripts are literary forms, but a script is not the same thing as the finished work of art.

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Short messages may not exactly be a new literary art form.

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"It's really a very strange literary and filmic form if you think about it, " says crime writer Andrew Taylor.

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Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce among many other literary greats have employed the form.

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Later he falls in with a circle of actors and artists to whom he boasts, untruthfully, that his poetry is about to be published in Sinn und Form, a highly respected literary journal.

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Mr Kelly points out that apart from a modern intrusion in the form of Harry Potter, the top 10 is dominated by the literary canon in the shape of the Brontes, Orwell and Tolkien.

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