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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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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.
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DEFINING THE LITERARY GENRE OF UTOPIA: SOME HISTORICAL SEMANTICS, SOME GENOLOGY, A PROPOSAL, AND A PLEA (1973, 9,300 words)
For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than … Continue reading
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