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No, not shocked, but flattered. I think this is Devereux's thesis statement: "I am sometimes baffled that the very fans who insist that their particular loves
by arduanika 6y ago
No, not shocked, but flattered. I think this is Devereux's thesis statement:
"I am sometimes baffled that the very fans who insist that their particular loves be treated seriously, as art are the same fans who react with frustration if one then sets out to interrogate those same genres the way one would interrogate serious art or literature. This is it, after all! This is what you (we, really) wanted! A (quite unimpressive, I’ll grant you) ivory tower academic is taking this genre seriously and subjecting it to serious criticism! Isn’t that what emerging genres often hope for, to be taken seriously as ‘high’ literature?"
- pjc50 6y agoPeople tried this with video games, and gamers built an entire political movement to destroy the possibility of critique. People want the unquestioned clout of being canon, without all these inconvenient academics interrogating the text.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> I am sometimes baffled that the very fans who insist that their particular loves be treated seriously, as art are the same fans who react with frustration if one then sets out to interrogate those same genres the way one would interrogate serious art or literature. I am sometimes baffled by people who understand that people can disagree on what is art, but don't understand that people also disagree on how art in general should be approached.