The novel’s rejection of origin-genealogies marks its secular, empty-time form
Evidence
Nothing better shows the immersion of the novel in homogeneous, empty time than the absence of those prefatory genealogies, often ascending to the origin of man, which are so characteristic a feature of ancient chronicles, legends, and holy books. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 148
Categorization
- XREF: The contrast of novelistic empty time with sacred genealogical time scaffolds how the imagined community replaces religious cosmology. — connects to: Nations fabricate biographies backward in time because they lack natural origins. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 747; Pre-modern genealogical narrative lacks historical personality in a way the nation’s biography cannot. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 746; Cultural Studies lacks a single origin and instead constitutes multiple unstable formations (+1 more)
Related
- Pre-modern genealogical narrative lacks historical personality in a way the nation’s biography cannot. (similarity 0.86)
- Nations fabricate biographies backward in time because they lack natural origins. (similarity 0.82)
- The mediaeval mind lacked a conception of history as cause and effect (similarity 0.79)