AGTD & Genre as History

[alice wellintown]

All reminds me of Joyce and Vico; that is, not so much the cycles of
history run river run back again to where we all begun to run...but we
imagine a connection to the past or to a passing, to history as it
unfolds and flips its pages away from us, as it belongs to the people
tangled in the lines signaled up from the mappings, and these are made
manifest in genre fictions that do not reflect the past but give to us
a double vision. The negative is not better than the photograph, for
the light is a darkness. But the parody exposes the genre-reflections
to the historical light, sets them against the day.


> 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?