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New Accents General Editor: TERENCE HAWKES FORMALISM AND MARXISM IN THE SAME SERIES Structuralism and Semiotics Terence Hawkes * Linguistics and the Novel Roger Fowler Reading Television John Fiske and John Hartley Language and Style E.L.Epstein Subculture: The Meaning of Style Dick Hebdige Critical Practice Catherine Belsey The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama Keir Elam Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching Patrick Parrinder Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion Rosemary Jackson Translation Studies Susan Bassnett-McGuire Sexual Fiction Maurice Charney Re-Reading English edited by Peter Widdowson Deconstruction: Theory and Practice Christopher Norris Orality and Literacy Walter J.Ong Poetry as Discourse Antony Easthope Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Literature and Propaganda A.P.Foulkes Reception Theory: A Critical Introduction Robert C.Holub Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction Patricia Waugh Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice Elizabeth Wright iii Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism edited by Gayle Green and Coppélia Kahn Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Toril Moi Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class Janet Batsleer, Tony Davies, Rebecca O’Rourke and Chris Weedon Alternative Shakespeares edited by John Drakakis The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature Russell J.Reising *Not available from Methuen, Inc. in the USA TONY BENNETT FORMALISM AND MARXISM ROUTLEDGE LONDON AND NEW YORK To my father and mother, with thanks First published in 1979 by Methuen & Co. Ltd This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 1979 Tony Bennett ISBN 0 -203-97790-4 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0 416 70870 6 (hardbound) ISBN 0 415 05086 3 (paperback) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. CONTENTS General Editor’s Preface ix Acknowledgements xii Part One: Formalism revisited xiv 1 CRITICISM AND LITERATURE 3 Questions of language 3 Questions of literature 6 Questions of aesthetics 9 2 FORMALISM AND MARXISM 17 Russian Formalism: theoretical 17 perspectives Reassessing Formalism 26 Historical perspectives on Russian 30 Formalism New directions in Marxist criticism 39 3 RUSSIAN FORMALISM: 45 CLEARING THE GROUND Linguistics and literature 45 The question of literariness: criticism 49 and its object viii The system and its elements: form 53 and function Against the ‘metaphysic of the text’ 60 The problem of literary evolution 65 4 FORMALISM AND BEYOND 69 The accomplishments of Formalism 69 Saussure’s magic carpet 75 Bakhtin’s historical poetics 81 ‘Literature’ as a historical category 89 Part Two: Marxist criticism: from aesthetics 99 to politics 5 MARXISM VERSUS 103 AESTHETICS Formalism: a lost heritage 103 Marxist criticism: aesthetics, politics 107 and history Literature’s ‘non-said’ 114 6 SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND 118 IDEOLOGY On practices 118 On ideology 120 On science 126 On art and literature 128 7 THE LEGACY OF AESTHETICS 135 The lessons of Formalism 135 A new idealism 141 Criticism and politics 147 ix 8 WORK IN PROGRESS 153 The post-Althusserians 153 Modes of literary production 161 Literature and the social process 168 9 CONCLUSION 181 Notes 189 Bibliography 200 Index 206
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