Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these accounts of literature and society from the most mechanical to the most dialectical.
- The work is homologous with a group's world vision
- The work reflects the economic base
- The work is a site where residual, dominant and emergent meanings are actively produced
- The work makes visible the ideology it comes from
Hints
- Start with the version in which literature does nothing of its own.
- Williams' three forces are the least mechanical of the four.
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- The work reflects the economic base
- The work is homologous with a group's world vision
- The work makes visible the ideology it comes from
- The work is a site where residual, dominant and emergent meanings are actively produced
Why
The sequence traces a single argument being repaired. Each step gives literature more to do: from passively reflecting, to sharing a structure, to holding ideology at a distance, to being one of the places where meanings are actually made.
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