Marketing is definitely an important element in all this, and one I hadn't thought about, though I think some of what you say chimes with the comments people have been making about reader expectation. You can change Macbeth into a detective story simply be expecting it to be one, as James Thurber showed.
Though - yeah, I'm not sure how I'd characterize the generic difference between 1984 and Archer's Goon either! I think the latter is as much a satire of local government as the former is a satire of totalitarianism. But perhaps more Horatian than Juvenalian? Best I can do!
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Date: 2009-06-05 05:50 pm (UTC)Though - yeah, I'm not sure how I'd characterize the generic difference between 1984 and Archer's Goon either! I think the latter is as much a satire of local government as the former is a satire of totalitarianism. But perhaps more Horatian than Juvenalian? Best I can do!