paraliterature

Although the term paraliterature had not been coined at the time of its writing we have to wait 17 years for Fredric Jameson to do that, the connection between science fiction and erotic fiction makes this essay one of the first defenses of the nobrow or paraliterary category.

Nobrow manifestos, #2 « Jahsonic 2008

Although the term paraliterature had not been coined at the time of its writing we have to wait 17 years for Fredric Jameson to do that, the connection between science fiction and erotic fiction makes this essay one of the first defenses of the nobrow or paraliterary category.

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Me, I suspect there’s a generational change, with a lot of younger writers not simply indifferent but steeped in paraliterature, happy to use the strange (that which breaches mimesis in terms of credibility warp) and the diegetic (that which breaches mimesis by telling rather than representing.)

Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

Me, I suspect there’s a generational change, with a lot of younger writers not simply indifferent but steeped in paraliterature, happy to use the strange (that which breaches mimesis in terms of credibility warp) and the diegetic (that which breaches mimesis by telling rather than representing.)

Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

The distinction may well be useful, but it also says loud and clear that "paraliterature" is *not* literature.

Extra Musing on "The Love We Share" Karen Burnham 2009

On the contrary, this means that Bukiet sees the features by which he characterises these works as “insidious” — i.e. infiltrating and corrupting — qualities of paraliterature that do not belong in “proper” high-brow fiction, qualities that have in fact been largely absent from it but are now sneaking into it, to the detriment of the field.

Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

According to the Wikipedia entry: Literary fiction is a term that has come into common usage since around 1960, principally to distinguish serious fiction (that is, work with claims to literary merit) from the many types of genre fiction and popular fiction (i.e., paraliterature).

Peter Temple's style suits his substance Peter Rozovsky 2010

It's a pretty fast read once everyone dies, so I would say it's worth your time as a student of the genre, if not perhaps as a work of pulpy escapist paraliterature.

Sometimes the Old Guys are Just as Nuts as the Youngins Karen Burnham 2009

It's a pretty fast read once everyone dies, so I would say it's worth your time as a student of the genre, if not perhaps as a work of pulpy escapist paraliterature.

Archive 2009-03-01 Karen Burnham 2009

While I loved the book P&P and all four movie/TV versions of the story, I am not one of those people who read Austen paraliterature.

Lost in Austen Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009