Was Paul M's Eagleton tidbit on THE UNCONSCIOUS

[jochen stremmel]

Found that http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/august08-how-fiction-works/
in the Web, and found it utterly convincing.

Perhaps there's more to find in the book - I doubt it.

2012/10/19 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>:
> In _How Fiction Works_ , in the chapter, "A Brief History of
> Consciosness", Wood examines, first, the OT Story of David, then
> Macbeth, and then Raskalnikov. It is worth reading. It is worth
> reading.
>
>
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>> The Eagleton book is The Event of Literature.  The chapter I was discussing
>> is entitled Stategy, which according to Eagleton comes from Burke, who saw
>> human communication as a form of action.  Dramatism.
>>
>> On Mark's comments, for me the sure sign of real literature is originality.
>> The presentation of non conventional values is ipso facto originality.
>> Values can be expressed in a million ways.  Where does this expression come
>> from--from the writer's unconscious.  More generally from all that is hidden
>> from normal view. Nothing is new under the sun.  But much is hidden.
>>