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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Matthew Zeitlin

      1. So I have a few thoughts on H.G. Wells, Henry James, Hugh Kenner, Guy Davenport, National Review & how sci-fi & fantasy became the lingua franca of political discourse.https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1135636580629143553 …

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      The amount of sci-fi and fantasy being referenced in the Ahmari-French discourse is astounding. This Dreher post links to people quoting The Two Towers and Children of Dune and Game of Thrones in sequential paragraphs respectively https://blog.ayjay.org/ahmari-revisited/ … https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/ahmari-french-fighting-words/ … pic.twitter.com/XBbc57AYRQ
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      2. H.G. Wells & Henry James were friends once, even talked about collaborating on a novel about a voyage to Mars, but feuded. Their personal rift was emblematic of a larger split between genre & literary fiction.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      3. The Wells/James rift was complicated but based on the two men deciding they didn't like each others approach to fiction: James seeing Wells as slapdash plotmonger & Wells concluding James was a effete wanker.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      4. With the Wells/James beak-up, we see "literary" fiction (bourgeois, private, mimetic, committed to recording impressionistic shades of feeling) divorcing from fantastika or genre (populist, public, anti-mimetic, committed to narrative drive)

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      5. Of the two sides of the mimetic/fantastika it is obviously fantastika that is better equipped to deal with politics. Modern fantastika (encompassing the gothic, horror, fantasy & science fiction) was born out of the need to register the world crisis of the French Revolution.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      6. While fantastika (Mary Shelley, Verne,Wells etc.) was trying to register the public of world of promethean technology, class war, revolution & imperialism, the bourgy mimetic novel was pointedly anti-political: a retreat into the private world of sensibility.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019

      7. So it's been true from Frankenstein to Game of Thrones that it's fantastika that has consistently provided us with the language for talking about public life: Think of 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Star Wars, Harry Potter.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2019
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      It's an offshoot of fantastika later absorbed by genre s.f. -- see Jameson's Archeologies of the Future.

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