Reactionary genres

[Mark Kohut]

>From a perusal of Davis' mind at work, I will
risk another plist tangent--only until the OFFICIAL
read starts!

Davis would find about ANY genre reactionary. Since all
literary genres, in becoming a genre, must find
their sources in the culture in which they are born.
The bourgeois-born novel itself, to risk the most outrageous claim.

The Western? Obviously backward-looking from the first successful
one, The Virginian. 

Romantic Comedy? QED.

Science fiction. Most of it just society's science extrapolated. And
played with uncritically. (Yet, there are major exceptions, of course)

Poetry. Court entertainment. Or a solitary vice, as it were. As reactionary
as love, say.

And so forth.