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According to Antony Easthope ‘the empiricist tradition affirms (1) that the subject is coherent and autonomous, (2) that discourse is in principle transparent and (3) that the real can be experienced directly’. Explicating the first of these points in relation to English culture, he added:
As always in an epistemological scenario, subject and object are joined reciprocally, so that the English subject and the English real correspond to each other. In that the English real is simply autonomous, given, the English subject is similarly not constructed but always already merely there as the subject of or for knowledge/experience.1
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Osborne, J. (2008). Larkin and Identity. In: Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598935_9
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