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BRECHT’S “LIFE OF GALILEO”: SCIENTISTIC EXTRAPOLATION OR ANALOGY OF THE KNOWER? (1988-90, 11,370 words) [from book DARKO SUVIN: A LIFE IN LETTERS]
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TWO INTERVENTIONS ON BODIES (1989, 7,800 words)
Discourses about the body are followed through Bakhtin, Hobbes, Freud, and Foucault to an updating of Marxism, arguing against bourgeois individualism that subject is a limit-zone of collective bodies. A viable materialist but dialectical theory of the body, and consequently … Continue reading
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WEISS’S MARAT/SADE AN ITS THREE MAIN PERFORMANCE VERSIONS (1986-88, 12,400 words)
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LUKÁCS: HORIZONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE “TYPICAL CHARACTER” (1986, 12,700 words)
A reconsideration of Lukàcs on agents (type) in literature as an instance of his horizons. Sections. On Narrative Agents,The Two Overviews of the Novel, Balzac and French Realism, Lukács’s Teleology, An Assessment.
Posted in 3. POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY, 6. NARRATIVE THEORY
Tagged epistemology, Lukacs, Narrative Theory, Politicaly
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THE COGNITIVE COMMODITY: FICTIONAL DISCOURSE AS NOVELTY AND CIRCULATION (1986, 7,150 words)
Anthropology of creativity in capitalism on the traces of Marx and Benjamin. Fashion, market, sensationalism; the press, selling writing, novelty in detail and repetition of type; gambling, financial speculaion, the sanctified commodity (Brecht)
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AGENTIAL ANALYSIS, TYPES, AND THE CLASSICAL CHINESE NOVEL (1983-86, 12,000 words)
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TWO HOLY COMMODITIES: THE PRACTICES OF FICTIONAL DISCOURSE AND EROTIC DISCOURSE (1985, 6,600 words)
Fictional discourse and erotic discourse are approached, following Marx’s Grundrisse, as literary genres that are in capitalism also (often primarily) commodities. Sections: 1. Cognitive Discourse as Commodity: The Novum as Fashion; 2. Press and Sex: A Homology; 3. Cognition and … Continue reading
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