The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

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Unite/Divide/Unite: World, National, Transnational Literature

Helga Lenart-Cheng (Harvard University)
A Typical Individual? Autobiography, Statistics and Eugenics

It's central focus is H. G. Wells' 1934 autobiography. The paper looks at Wells' struggle to define the unique particular individual in the frame of a generalized, unified human experience. Wells' utopian, de-individualized autobiography is a most exciting text from the point of view of your discussion of "Uniting/Separating/Uniting".

THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES