Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader

465 Pages·1996·66.1 MB·English

by  Terry Eagleton

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Marxist Literary Theory
A Reader

Marxist Literary Theory
A Reader
Edited by
Terry Eagleton
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Drew Milne
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Contents
Terry Eagleton 1
Introduction Part I
Drew Milne 16
Introduction Part II: Reading Marxist Literary Theory
1 Marx and Engels 30
a) Marx/ Engels, Social Being and Social Consciousness
(18;911845-6)
b) Marx, Unc\"en Characler of Historical Development and
Questions of Art (1857-8)
c) Marx, Poetry of the Future (1852)
d) Engels, Against Vulgar Marxism (1890)
e) Engtls, On Realism (1888)
2 V. I. Lenin 42
Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch (1911)
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3 Leon Trotsky 46
The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism (1923)
4 V. N. V%sinov 60
Concerning the Relationship of the Basis and Superstructures
(1929)
5 Walter Benjamin 69
a) Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia
(1929)
b) Addendum to 'The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire'
(1938)
6 Ernst Bloch 84
Marxism and Poetry (1935)
7 Christopher Caudwell 91
English Poets: The Period of Primitive Accumulation (1937)
8 Alick West 103
The Relativity of Literary Value (1937)
9 Bertolt Brecht 107
A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)
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10 Roland Barthes 136
The Tasks of Brcchtian Criticism (1956)
11 Georg Lukacs 141
The Ideology of Modernism (1957)
12 Galvano Della Volpe 163
The Semantic Dialectic (1960)
13 T. W. Adorno 187
Commitment (1962)
14 Lucien Goldmann 204
Introduction to the Problems of a Sociology of the Nmcl (1963)
15 Jean-Pau/ Sartre 221
The Objecti\'e Spirit (1972)
16 Raymond Williams 242
a) Tragedy and Re\·olution (1966)
b) Literature (1977)
17 Louis Althusser 269
A Lener on An in Reply to Andri Daspre (1966)
18 Etienne 8alibar and Pierre Macherey 275
On Literature as an Ideological Form (1974)
- • 19 Terry fagleton 296
Towards a Science of the Text (1976)
20 The Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective 328
Women's Writing: Jant £yrt, SI"rfty, Villtllt, Aurora Ltiglr (1978)
21 Fredric Jameson 351
On Interpretation (1981)
22 Aijaz Ahmad 375
Jameson's Rhetoric of Othemess and the 'National Allegory' (1987)
23 ChidiAmuta 399
The M:uerialism of Cultural Nationalism: Achebe's
Things Fall Apart and ArroIP of God (1989)
24 Alex Callinicos 408
The Jargon of Postmodernity (1989)
Index 429