It's collage-like, juxtaposing passages without explaining how and interested in disrupting what is ordinarily thought.
Genre - "kind"; genre fiction - formulaic
-novel 18th century (1700)
-short story Romantic era (1800)
-canon of great literature - selected works of literature. In recent years, the canon has been blown apart - supplanted by cultural studies. People became aware of the politics of reading nothing but canon and started to get away from strictly using it. However, the politics may have gone too far. There is great art! But also explain why! It's too narrowly defined currently that people can't see great art in everything.
By worshipping a "great" artist, it's a form of alienated majesty; people see their own greatness projected in that artist and that is why they believe it's great. "Forms of Attention"
Attention is a limited commodity, and the canon is a way to compartmentalize that commodity. However, it has gotten out of hand which is why people are now trying to escape it. We need to find a steady balance between "great" art and "all" art.
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