My dear
Fordim,
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They are not imposed on us from without, but spring up from within ourselves, all of us, trapping us all in the same prisonhouse of consumerist, ideological representation.
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Aren't you getting your Althusser mixed up with your Fredric Jameson, (
The Prison-House of Language ?
These Marxists do tend to cross-pollinate.
It is not only women artists whose work has been neglected by time and history. Throughout the ninetheenth century, Milton was regarded as the quintessential seventeenth century poet--the protestant rebel finding a chord of sympathy with the romantics and eclipsing more traditional poets such as Marvell, Herbert and Donne. It took the voice of a T. S. Eliot to bring back to the forefront of critical acclaim John Donne.
Strangely now--or perhaps not--the memorials for both Blake and Donne lie in St. Paul's.