Modern Narratives of Paranoia
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In the fi rst great period of bourgeois hegemony, the reinvention of romance fi nds its strategies in the substitution of new positivities (theology, psychology, the dramatic metaphor) for the older magical content. When at the end of the nineteenth century the search for secular equivalents seems exhausted, the characteristic indirection of a nascent modernism, from Kafka to Cortazar, circumscribes the place of the fantastic as a determinate marked absence at the heart of the secular world. —Frederic Jameson
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