Instead of either accepting this mo

Instead of either accepting this model as universal or rejecting it as historically biased toward modern literature, we should consider it as an example of how any hermeneutics must work to create a general human body. When Harvey defines characters as positioned within an alien space, he is elevating to the level of a general schematic for understanding the variety of body types within narrative one particular body type. Certainly there will be variations among the way that this general body type will be represented, variations that will account for why all of the characters in modern literature do not occupy exactly the same body. Nonetheless, we can say that this image of the alienated body is precisely the general body that becomes the basis upon which these other variations are thought.