paraliterary

In SF circles, this is being seen as another attack on science fiction as subliterary as opposed to paraliterary which is just so awful and mean.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008

The Kootenay School of Writing is seeking submissions for the 13th issue of W magazine, to focus on "paraliterary" or nonliterary writing projects.

Interesting, but it's not literature Lemon Hound 2006

The Kootenay School of Writing is seeking submissions for the 13th issue of W magazine, to focus on "paraliterary" or nonliterary writing projects.

Archive 2006-09-01 Lemon Hound 2006

Stitching together variant forms -- comedic, tragic, satiric, mythic, mimetic, literary, paraliterary -- it seeks to create a Big Picture from the juxtapositions, in the contrasts and congruities born of the seamed structure.

Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Stitching together variant forms -- comedic, tragic, satiric, mythic, mimetic, literary, paraliterary -- it seeks to create a Big Picture from the juxtapositions, in the contrasts and congruities born of the seamed structure.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Postmodern(ism) Hal Duncan 2008

Maybe even the same strange fiction that other writers were creating long before the whole rift between realist novels and pulp romance, between literary and paraliterary, was opened up and stabilised by the processes of commerce and academia, and then relabelled as "mainstream" and "genre", a nomenclature defined more in terms of commercial and critical marginalisation than in terms of literary form, more politics than aesthetics.

Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Maybe even the same strange fiction that other writers were creating long before the whole rift between realist novels and pulp romance, between literary and paraliterary, was opened up and stabilised by the processes of commerce and academia, and then relabelled as "mainstream" and "genre", a nomenclature defined more in terms of commercial and critical marginalisation than in terms of literary form, more politics than aesthetics.

Strange Fiction 9 Hal Duncan 2006

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.

11 « March « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

It is a complete engagement with literature, and once again reveals a thoughtful, intelligent, and astute academic observer of the entire literary and paraliterary experience.

about writing jlundberg 2007