LSAT Prep 101 section 4

epTest 101 / Section 4 Directions Passage Only View Find Text, Type Here AA = | Section Time Remaining: 33:32 Wherever the crime novels of P. D. James are discussed by . The author refers to the "patinas and aromas of a country critics, there is a tendency on the one hand to exaggerate her kitchen" (middle of the third paragraph) most probably in order merits and on the other to castigate her as a genre writer who is to getting above herself. Perhaps underlying the debate is that familiar, false opposition set up between different kinds of fiction, according to which enjoyable novels are held to be somehow A illustrate James's gift for innovative phrasing O slightly lowbrow, and a novel is not considered true literature unless it is a tiny bit dull. B highlight James's interest in rural society O Those commentators who would elevate James's books to the status of high literature point to her painstakingly constructed allow the reader to experience the pleasure of James's characters, her elaborate settings, her sense of place, and her love books of abstractions: notions about morality, duty, pain, and pleasure are never far from the lips of her police officers and murderers. Others find her pretentious and tiresome; an inverted snobbery accuses D explain how James typically constructs her plots O her of abandoning the time-honored conventions of the detective genre in favor of a highbrow literary style. The critic Harriet Waugh wants P. D. James to get on with "the more taxing business of exemplify James's preoccupation with descriptive writing O laying a tricky trail and then fooling the reader"; Philip Oakes in The Literary Review groans, "Could we please proceed with the business of clapping the handcuffs on the killer?" James is certainly capable of strikingly good writing. She takes immense trouble to provide her characters with convincing histories and passions. Her descriptive digressions are part of the pleasure of her books and give them dignity and weight. But it is equally true that they frequently interfere with the story; the patinas and aromas ofja counter kitchen receive more loving attention than dose the plot 2 15 16 17 8 7 18 19 20 | 21 22 23 24 25 26 Q zm 45 A