Theological compromise concepts mediate between romance narrative and capitalist historicity

Evidence

In the Italian society of the period, strongly marked by the new Enlightenment values but far less secularized than the more advanced post-revolutionary states, the concept of Providence still provides an adequate theoretical mediation between the salvational logic of the romance narrative and the nascent sense of historicity imposed by the social dynamic of capitalism. Where, in other situations, such as that of Stendhal, this compromise concept is unavailable, we observe a curious oscillation and hesitation between the archaic and the secular; episodes such as Julien’s discovery of a scrap of newsprint that prefigures his future death on the scaffold, or the various astrological predictions and omens of La Chartreuse de Parme, may be read as magical survivals of the older form which have found themselves, in secular society, degraded to the status of private superstitions. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3058

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Jameson method of reading narrative form as ideological symptom; also resonates with the BMF candidate re: Providence vs. secular skepticism. — connects to: Religious narrative structures persist inside secular novels as absorbed plot paradigms — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 500; Religion functions as a utopia reconciling real historical contradictions in mythological form — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1440

Broader Connections

• Religion functions as a utopia reconciling real historical contradictions in mythological form #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1440
• Religious narrative structures persist inside secular novels as absorbed plot paradigms #corroborates (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 500