[Dragaera] Cool Stuff Theory of Litterature was: (RE: Steven Erikson

[skzb]

Yes, indeed it does.  Marxists are, however, more conscious of the laws 
of the dialectic: the inter penetration of opposites, the transformation 
of quantity into quality and vice versa, and the negation of the negation.

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 1/23/2009 skzb wrote:
> > Um.  Not so much.  That is a
> pseudo-Marxist approach.  A traditional
>
> > Marxist reading would focus on finding the fundamental
> contradictions
>
> > that drive the work.  For example, in The Book of the New Sun,
> much
>
> > of
>
> > what makes it work is the contradiction between Sevarian's
> humanity
>
> > and
>
> > the inhumanity of his profession.  It would also focus on the
>
> > relationship of form to content, and of the particular to the
> general
>
> > (internal quest vs. external, and  the ways in which the
> characters
>
> > do
>
> > or do not expression universal human problems, and how a given
> work
>
> > succeeds or fails in presenting that).  "A work of art must be
>
> > considered first of all as a work of art." - Trotsky.
>
> So why is that contrast particularly Marxist?   It seems to exist all 
> over.
>

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