Genre criticism becomes a creative enterprise when freed from canonical rigidities

Evidence

Genre criticism thereby recovers its freedom and opens up a new space for the creative construction of experimental entities, such as Lukacs’ reading of Solzhenitsyn in terms of an invented “genre” that might be termed the “closed laboratory situation, ” which project their “dia­ chronic constructs ” only the more surely to return to the synchronic historical situation in which such novels can be·read as symbolic acts. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3434

Categorization

• XREF: Points toward Lukacs’ typological constructions; could connect to my interest in interpretive method as creative construction. — connects to: Critics internalize the highbrow canon until they stop desiring anything beyond it; Entrenched formal expectations prevent critics from recognizing genre innovation. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 581; Effective criticism shapes culture rather than merely describing it — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2688 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Entrenched formal expectations prevent critics from recognizing genre innovation. #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 581
• Effective criticism shapes culture rather than merely describing it #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2688
• Criticism should recover a work’s original clumsiness rather than its refined difficulty #qualifies (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 488