The social is repetition. The predominance in contemporary literary scholarship of motifs of “practice,” “discourse,” and “circulation” attests to the abiding preference, today, for that which occurs more than once. “Historicism,” so conceived, means neither the study of discrete events in the past, nor even that of glacial transformations, but the embe…
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