Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 18:14:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bryan A Case <godwin-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Orwell and Jameson, together at last (fwd)



Sorry - I think I meant to send this message to *this* list.  Confusion 
on the left once again...


--Bryan A. Case a/k/a Bryan.Case-AT-um.cc.umich.edu a/k/a godwin-AT-umich.edu--
	"I have come to die for your sins," Jesus told a stooped figure
passing him on the road. 
	"Then what am I to die for?" the old man asked.
	Jesus took a small notebook from his pocket and copied the 
question.  "If I may have your name and address," he said, "an answer 
will be sent to you."
				-A.J. Langguth, JESUS CHRISTS

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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 18:10:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bryan A Case <godwin-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Orwell and Jameson, together at last


Okay.  I've gotten my books out (a pleasant reading of Benjamin's essay on
the subject helped) and have found the quotes: 
	Speaking of ressentiment... "This diagnostic double standard, 
which will furnish the inner dynamic for a whole tradition of 
counterrevolutionary propaganda from Dostoyevsky and Conrad to Orwell, is 
thus immediately relevant to the double ominous status of Richard Mutimer 
as proletarian intellectual, and serves as a legitimation for the 
gratuitous cruelty with which this character is structurally punished."
			-THE POLITICAL UNCONSCIOUS, Cornell 1981 pb, 202
	"Indeed, the great political novels, UNDER WESTERN EYES and THE 
SECRET AGENT - as powerful counterrevolutionary tracts in their own ways 
as the masterpieces of Dostoyevsky or Orwell - emit the message of 
ressentiment (and its role as the true source of all revolutionary 
vocation) so obsessively that they betray their own inner dynamic: the 
concept of ressentiment being, as I have observed earlier, itself the 
product of the feeling in question."  (268)

	As far as I can tell Orwell doesn't show up in MARXISM AND FORM 
or POSTMODERNISM.

--Bryan A. Case a/k/a Bryan.Case-AT-um.cc.umich.edu a/k/a godwin-AT-umich.edu--
	"I have come to die for your sins," Jesus told a stooped figure
passing him on the road. 
	"Then what am I to die for?" the old man asked.
	Jesus took a small notebook from his pocket and copied the 
question.  "If I may have your name and address," he said, "an answer 
will be sent to you."
				-A.J. Langguth, JESUS CHRISTS