Building Worlds: Dialectical Materialism as Method in China Miéville's Bas-Lag
| العنوان: | Building Worlds: Dialectical Materialism as Method in China Miéville's Bas-Lag |
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| المؤلفون: | Rich Paul Cooper |
| المصدر: | Extrapolation. 50:212-223 |
| بيانات النشر: | Liverpool University Press, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cultural Studies, Literature, Literature and Literary Theory, business.industry, Fictional universe, Freedman, Aesthetics, Poetics, Capital (economics), Marxist philosophy, Sociology, Subversion, business, Order (virtue), Dialectical materialism |
| الوصف: | This essay examines the method China Mieville uses to create his fictional world Bas-Lag. Following Carl Freedman's arguments about the Marxist poetics that serve as the theoretical base for Mieville's fiction, Mieville's method corresponds directly to the method outlined by Marx in The Grundrisse. This method involves the concentration of many abstract determinations in order to create a concrete world. The results of this concentrative method yield a vast generic and stylistic monstrosity, in this case Bas-Lag. Therefore, I will argue the form of world creation is generic overdetermination—understood as the accumulation, interaction, and mutual subversion of the voices, styles, genres, and discourses that present that world—and that this form corresponds to the era of late, global capital |
| تدمد: | 2047-7708 0014-5483 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::c5d7c2f90271f4ef6f25588fb47c7a8aTest https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.4Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........c5d7c2f90271f4ef6f25588fb47c7a8a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20477708 00145483 |
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