AGTD & Genre as History

Markekohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 18 15:20:30 CST 2013


Love tht last line and Another Resonance to Iceland Spar....

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On Feb 18, 2013, at 3:59 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?



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