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What is the most likely reason literary critics compare the works of artists and authors on the same subject matter? so we have four options here.
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Let's go through them and think if this is reasonable.
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A.
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Is it about finding out which is the most talented? no, this is not the answer.
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Literary critics are not typically dealing with who is the best author or who is the best artist.
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That's extremely difficult because there's so much subjective going into that.
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Be saying who is better tolstoy or dostoevsky? they were both big russian writers focusing on these big questions but it would be quite a waste of time trying to decide which is objectively the best.
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On to b and we also don't do this.
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There is room for this maybe in art history to understand how authors felt about each other but we're looking at their literary output.
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So rather than history, we're looking at how they feel about these issues.
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We want to know how they feel about the subject matter, not about each other.
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C and d...