Lukacs’ typification theory captures but incompletely explains character representation

Evidence

Lukacs’ theory of typification, while confirmed by such a passage, can nonetheless be said to be incomplete on two counts; on the one hand, it fails to identify the typifying of characters as an essentially allegorical phenomenon, and thus does not furnish any adequate account of the process whereby a narrative becomes endowed with allegorica! — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3838

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lakatos fused Lukács and Popper into a two-part theory-testing model — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 433; Writers evoke character through physical gestures and spatial orientation in a scene — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 163

Broader Connections

• Writers evoke character through physical gestures and spatial orientation in a scene #expands (0.72) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 163