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[edit]What makes something of culture a classic?
[edit]How do you know if something of culture is like a classic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.24.208.254 (talk) 03:07, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
- See Classic. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:11, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
- See also Western canon --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:02, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
- You study that culture and discover their classics, or you ask someone who has done so already, and find out what they say. Broadly speaking, fields that look at a culture are sociology and anthropology, though there are fields like literary criticism that will be more concerned specifically with literature per se. --Jayron32 15:14, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
- Being a "classic" is just a level of recognition. Nobody has the authority to give or deny classic status, it just happens or not. Note that there's also the "cult classic", a classic but only among a certain group of people. Cambalachero (talk) 21:06, 27 August 2018 (UTC)