Starboard Wine

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Samuel R. Delany. Starboard Wine

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Starboard Wine

The Jewels of Aptor (1962)

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6. This taxonomy is contemporary and synchronic. For any diachronic understanding of the historical forces that have brought this synchronic array about, we must explore the historical forces that have led to the recent dissolution of the term “genre” in poststructural debate. We must examine the attractions between the sociopsychological world and the locus of an ideally undifferentiated discourse whose historical moment is placed farther and farther back as the revealed vectors clarify the diachronic location of its true differentiations.

7. There are good precedents for this assumption. The Russian critic M. M. Bakhtin was among the first to note (in The Dialogic Imagination, edited by Michael Holquist and translated by Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson, University of Texas Press, 1981) that by the end of the nineteenth century, all the literary genres had become “novelized.” This “novelization of literary genres” is what allows me so frequently to take mundane (or bourgeois) fiction as the literary prototype.

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