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Mut(e)ability: issues of uniqueness, equivalence and human agency in Schwob's Dialogues d'utopie
A commitment to the thinkable specificify of a particular century, with
literature as the apparent object, can provide intimations of the
currency-lives of words. Authorial names become a vector of differentiation,
accumulating suggestive powers through their constant
positioning and re-positioning in the retrospective cortstruction of cultural
change. Epochal generalities flow somewhat paradoxically from
an arrangement of proper nouns: