The basic form of my question is: Could including aesthetic value as a requirement for something to be literature lead to a subjective uncertainty about whether given works are non-literature or bad literature?
I do not think so. The idea of aesthetic value is not qualitative; saying that a work has aesthetic value is, I think, like saying that a work costs money. Saying how much aesthetic value a work has (how much money it costs) is qualitative, but that is a secondary judgement, and leads only to a work being considered good or bad literature - not literature or non-literature.
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