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I cannot do much but touch upon the other. The other never does anything other than to touch me.
Only in the novel … does there occur a creative memory which transfixes the object and transforms it.
Georg Lukács
There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one.
Walter Benjamin
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Wolfreys, J. (2013). Notes Towards a Poethics of Spectrality: The Examples of Neo-Victorian Textuality. In: Mitchell, K., Parsons, N. (eds) Reading Historical Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291547_10
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