Paraculture
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| [[Paraculture]] is an early 21st century neologism somewhat analogous to the [[nobrow]] concept. | [[Paraculture]] is an early 21st century neologism somewhat analogous to the [[nobrow]] concept. | ||
| - | Since both [[paraliterature]] and [[paracinema]] seem to be about the appreciation by intellectuals of [[low culture]] in cinema and literature, it straddles [[high culture]] and low culture and is a basic tenet of the nobrow concept. | + | Since both [[paraliterature]] and [[paracinema]] seem to be about the appreciation by intellectuals of [[low culture]] in cinema and literature, para'''culture''' straddles [[high culture]] and low culture and is a basic tenet of the nobrow concept. |
| [[Krauss]] coined the term ''paraliterary'' and [[Jameson]] the term ''paraliterature''. However, they used it to denote different concepts. With paraliterary, Krauss denotes philosophy that can be read as [[literature]] (of which Deleuze is a good example). With paraliterature, Jameson denotes that literature which became popular after postmodernism dissolved the borders between high and low literature. | [[Krauss]] coined the term ''paraliterary'' and [[Jameson]] the term ''paraliterature''. However, they used it to denote different concepts. With paraliterary, Krauss denotes philosophy that can be read as [[literature]] (of which Deleuze is a good example). With paraliterature, Jameson denotes that literature which became popular after postmodernism dissolved the borders between high and low literature. | ||
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Paraculture is an early 21st century neologism somewhat analogous to the nobrow concept.
Since both paraliterature and paracinema seem to be about the appreciation by intellectuals of low culture in cinema and literature, paraculture straddles high culture and low culture and is a basic tenet of the nobrow concept.
Krauss coined the term paraliterary and Jameson the term paraliterature. However, they used it to denote different concepts. With paraliterary, Krauss denotes philosophy that can be read as literature (of which Deleuze is a good example). With paraliterature, Jameson denotes that literature which became popular after postmodernism dissolved the borders between high and low literature.
Quoting from Krauss:
- "If one of the tenets of modernist literature had been the creation of a work that would force reflection on the conditions of its own construction, that would insist on reading as a much more consciously critical act, then it is not surprising that the medium of a postmodernist literature should be the critical text wrought into a paraliterary form. And what is clear is that Barthes and Derrida are the writers, not the critics, that students now read." --Rosalind Krauss (1980, 40) quoted in Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1980) - Linda Hutcheon
Quoting from 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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