AtD and more: Fredric Jameson on SF

[Mark Kohut]

So I sez to myself: Self, you can read that again.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Science fiction is not the only mass-cultural genre (or subgenre) whose
> relationship to ‘high literature’ and to modernism in particular presents
> problems. It is as easy to feel that James and Wells are incompatible as it
> is to reject the notion that Dostoevsky (let alone Oedipus Rex) has any
> family relationship with the detective story. When we come to Orlando or
> Pynchon, the conviction of incompatibility remains firm, but the arguments
> become more difficult to sustain, or even to articulate. Experimental
> literature ought to share generic features with its more popular cousins,
> but it doesn’t; Cormac McCarthy and Jonathan Lethem are not of the same
> genre as Philip K. Dick, however long Margaret Atwood managed to ‘pass’."
>
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n17/fredric-jameson/in-hyperspace
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