Christopher Caudwell: Towards a Dialectical Theory of LiteratureChristopher Caudwell was only twenty-nine when he was killed in action in February 1937 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Largely unknown at the time of his death, his reputation has been established subsequently as one of the most original English cultural critics of the Twentieth century. |
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Page 73
... thought , is ' the search for an " authentic language " - the language of negation as the Great Refusal to accept the rules of a game in which the dice are loaded ' . 109 Avant - garde poetry , then , at its best and most politically ...
... thought , is ' the search for an " authentic language " - the language of negation as the Great Refusal to accept the rules of a game in which the dice are loaded ' . 109 Avant - garde poetry , then , at its best and most politically ...
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... thought and its highest product , scientific thought ) . Here this very sensory experience doubly concrete and doubly ' alive ' - is itself condensed .... the type of thinking here is not the same as in logical thought . Here ...
... thought and its highest product , scientific thought ) . Here this very sensory experience doubly concrete and doubly ' alive ' - is itself condensed .... the type of thinking here is not the same as in logical thought . Here ...
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... thought , nor does thought impose it on the external world . The relation between subject and object , ego and Universe , is itself dialectic . 14 In adopting this stance , Caudwell echoes the early Lukács , who had mounted a militant ...
... thought , nor does thought impose it on the external world . The relation between subject and object , ego and Universe , is itself dialectic . 14 In adopting this stance , Caudwell echoes the early Lukács , who had mounted a militant ...
Contents
The Journey to Commitment | 7 |
Caudwells Functionalist Theory of Art | 24 |
The Origins | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Christopher Caudwell: Towards a Dialectical Theory of Literature Christopher Pawling No preview available - 1989 |
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