Formal sedimentation names genres as layered deposits of past ideology
Evidence
Let us now look more closely at this type of construction, which we will designate as a model . of formal sedimentation, and whose essential theory we owe to Edmund Husserl. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3243
Categorization
- DEFINE: Coins ‘model of formal sedimentation’ as the term for diachronic constructs that project a myth of origins.
- XREF: connects to: Formalist language, emptied of content, gives rise to nominalism as bourgeois thought — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 66; Genre form refracts rather than directly reflects political ideology — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 321; Genre systems reveal the dominant ideology of their era — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 720 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Formal markers in pastiche texts appear as traces of older forms
#exemplifies(0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 230 - Genre form refracts rather than directly reflects political ideology
#expands(0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 321 - Genre systems reveal the dominant ideology of their era
#qualifies(0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 720 - Postmodern genres are artificial systems devised in imitation of natural ones
#complicates(0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 331