Some Important Terms
Prototypical v. Peripheral:
In
grammar as in life, our categories leak. When, for instance, we are sorting
fiction into boxes labeled fantasy and boxes labeled science fiction, we will
find some examples that clearly go in one box or the other – Lord of the Rings is fantasy,The Left Hand of Darkness is science
fiction – but others will fall in a grey area: Anne McCaffery’s Pern novels,
for instance.
