Dialectical analysis begins by isolating key factors from the historical continuum

Evidence

Such an extended illustration should serve to underline the inseparable link between what we have called the isolation of the category (the definition of the object of study, whether it be image, style, point of view, character, or those more transitory and unnamed literary phenomena which are the very substance of modern literature itself) and that articulation into a succession of alternative structural realizations which we have called the diachronic sequence or construct, and which, always implied in the very intuition of the category itself, constitutes the concrete working out of the latter by the critic. Thus these two moments stand together as the inaugural gesture of a genuinely dialectical literary criticism, of what we will call its Hegelian mode, to be distinguished later on from the specifically Marxist. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 659 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The dialectical pun links each formal concept to its originating historical reality — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 679; Dialectical criticism unites category-isolation with diachronic sequencing. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 659; Dialectical criticism of superstructures shifts from causal point-field analysis to homology between two continua — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 44

Broader Connections

• Dialectical criticism unites category-isolation with diachronic sequencing. #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 659