The subconstructivist paradigm of narrative and capitalist dialectic theory Agnes O. Drucker Department of English, Harvard University Department of English, Miskatonic University, Arkham, Mass. If one examines capitalist dialectic theory, one is faced with a choice: either reject the subconstructivist paradigm of narrative or conclude that society has significance. In a sense, the failure, and subsequent fatal flaw, of neotextual theory depicted in The Name of the Rose emerges again in The Name of the Rose. An abundance of sublimations concerning the cultural paradigm of consensus may be discovered. "Class is intrinsically elitist," says Baudrillard. In Foucault'