Characteristic plot structure persists while its object is interiorized across historical stages

Evidence

Proustian plot is therefore constituted by a series of episodes each of which negates the immediately preceding one, while at the same time raising it to a higher plane; and emotionally, this negation of the negation has an immense impact. … Proust thus reduplicates the characteristic plot rhythms of his master Balzac, whose novels also turn around a wishing or desiring; but what was there an appetency for the external goods and objects of nascent capitalism is here interiorized, and translated by Proust onto a psychological level. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 294

Categorization

• XREF: The negation-of-the-negation plot rhythm is pure dialectical method — connects directly to Jameson’s Hegelian/Marxist apparatus and to Lukács’s theory of the novel as interiorized epic. — connects to: Natural measurements correlate over time because dynamics persist; Discerning order always persists within otherwise disordered historical periods — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 860; Surrealist layering of fragmented images persists across decades as a continuity
• DEFINE: Defines ‘inner plot’ of Proust via the dialectical negation that elevates prior episodes, and distinguishes it from the outer plot of the next paragraph.

Broader Connections

• Surrealist layering of fragmented images persists across decades as a continuity #exemplifies (0.85)
• Natural measurements correlate over time because dynamics persist #expands (0.75)
• Discerning order always persists within otherwise disordered historical periods #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 860