AGTD & Genre as History

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Thanks (again)for this. I do think the working belief of many--most?--plisters is that 
The satire is visible...and can be brought out more w discussion. 

Harder, I say, is to show the positive in the parody that is IV (from his slant) and the
Non-parodic ( or values behind the satire) in P's works, esp. Maybe ATD? 

Or am I wrong? 

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On Feb 18, 2013, at 10:30 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Leise Introduction is a clever reply to the criticisms that
> reviewers of P after M&D, a book that many read as a positive turn by
> P, and specifically, a turn away from the cartoonish figures, the
> Menippean Mouthpieces of, yes, what Frye in Anatomy describes as
> cranks in all manner of professions, so that we got in Mason and
> Dixon, characters with complex psychological development and the like.
> But, as Leise, again, in this clever reading of P and genre,
> explains, P has not turned, but continued his parody of the genres
> that were in use when Cherrycoke was keeping the children of all
> reading ages amused.
> 
> Leise then turns to the reading of AGTD after IV, and, as I argued
> here when we read that book, argues that IV too is a parody; parody in
> the tradition of Poe, parody of the hardboiled detective fiction, not
> a negative parody but a positive one.
> 
> That Leise falls back on the argument that the cartoons excert a
> political force, one that the bias of reading from Aristotle misreads,
> is unfortunate because Leise's argument about genre and parody and
> poaching, then taken up in the first chapter by McHale, is quite
> convincing, and, though it may be compatible with the political
> reading, is not dependent upon not comensurate with a political
> reading.