“an uncanny desire to be that which we already areâ€
from Catherine Gallagher, “The Rise of Fictionalityâ€, from The Novel, Volume 1, ed. Franco Moretti (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006) “In addition to the gaps between shifting textual perspectives and the separation between subjectivity and speaker, we should also mention those between attempted reference and realization or typification and individuation, which hark back to Henry Fielding’s […]
