Paraliterature
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Paraliterature is an academic term for genre literature, such as science fiction, fantasy, mystery, pulp fiction and comic books, that is not generally considered literary fiction by mainstream literary standards.
In the words of Fredric Jameson:
- "The postmodernisms have, in fact, been fascinated precisely by this whole “degraded” landscape of schlock and kitsch, of TV series and Reader's Digest, of advertising and motels, of the late show and the grade-B Hollywood film, of so-called paraliterature, with its airport paperback categories of the gothic and the romance, the popular biography, the murder mystery, and the science fiction or fantasy novel: materials they no longer simply “quote” as a Joyce or a Mahler might have done, but incorporate into their very substance. --"" Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1984) - Fredric Jameson * Source: New Left Review 146, 1984, pp. 53—92
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References
- Le Roman populaire. Recherches en paralittérature (1975) Marc Angenot
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See also
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