Reactionary genres

[rich]

he's a marxist. those folks have a stick up their stick's butt
through alot of the shrillness, you'll find some interesting ideas

naomi klein and co. are carrying that torch for good or ill.
personally, self-righteousness spoils my buzz

rich

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From a perusal of Davis' mind at work, I will
> risk another plist tangent--only until the OFFICIAL
> read starts!
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> 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.
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> The Western? Obviously backward-looking from the first successful
> one, The Virginian.
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> Romantic Comedy? QED.
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> Science fiction. Most of it just society's science extrapolated. And
> played with uncritically. (Yet, there are major exceptions, of course)
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> Poetry. Court entertainment. Or a solitary vice, as it were. As reactionary
> as love, say.
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> And so forth.
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