Narrative categories like character and plot are the form of content, not content itself

Evidence

Having, to use Hjelmslev’s distinction, examined the content of form—<::onrad’ s style as a symbolic act and as ideology­ we must now turn to the form of content. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6030

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Hjelmslev’s content-of-form vs form-of-content distinction as the pivot from style to narrative proper.
• XREF: Connects to Hjelmslev’s glossematics and to Jameson’s earlier chapter on the ideological nature of form. — connects to: Literary fiction is character-driven, genre fiction plot-driven — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 485; Idealist aesthetics identify form and content, not technique and plot; Point of view as a category cannot apply to pre-modern narrative forms — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 703 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Literary fiction is character-driven, genre fiction plot-driven #complicates (0.85) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 485
• Idealist aesthetics identify form and content, not technique and plot #corroborates (0.80)