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Viconian, a.|vɪˈkəʊnɪən|
[f. the name of Giovanni Battista Vico (1668–1744), Neapolitan philosopher + -ian.]
Designating the theories or doctrines of Vico, esp. those concerned with the historical development of culture and its cyclical or repetitive character.
1957N. Frye Anat. Crit. i. 62 Joyce and his Viconian theory of history. 1967Listener 23 Mar. 391/3 Implying that the work should properly be..bound in such a way as to have no first or last page, a very embodiment of Viconian circularity. 1976T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology iv. 157 Human societies are specific sectors of that cosmic process, determined by its unalterable laws, moving inexorably through their Viconian cycles. |