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M A R 1 S T Edited by TERRY EAGLETON & DREW MILNE IE Of • • . • , L Marxist Literary Theory A Reader Marxist Literary Theory A Reader Edited by Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne III BLACKWELL Publ,.hers Cop),nghl C Bbck.,nll Publi5h~TI Lid 1996 (uecpl Iii ,Iated for individual pieces in lhe Ad:no.';ledgrm~n{lil, First published 1996 2'4681097531 Ulaek. .... ell Publishers Lid 10& Co ... lc~· Road Oxford OX", IJF UK Blach-dl Publishtrs Inc;:. 23& MILn SIf~1 ann Camhrid~, MI5!;a~hulliCul USA All Tights rcsuyed. E~cepl for Ih~ quotation of 'hon pusa~1 for Ih~ purp0ie5 of ~ritirum Ind re~~w, no plTI of this publiClllion 1m)' be reproduced. Rored in I retTlcvallyAm!, or transmittcd, in an) form Or h) any mevu, clttlronic:. mechanICal, phOIOCOp)'ml. recording or othe. .·i sc, ,,·;thoUI the pnor permission of lhe: publlShcr Elccpt in the UnLlcd Stalts of Am<:ri(2, [hit book is sold 5ubj«1 to Ihe condil1on Ihat il lilull nol, b)' WI)' of lrad~ or olhCTWisc, he knl, retold, hired OUI, or OIh~r~ ~i5C' circulated "'ilhoul Ihe publish~r'5 prior renscnl in In) fonn of bindinl or co,'cr Othcr than Ihal in ,,'hleh il til published and .'lIhoUI a limilar rendition indudm, Ihili condillOO hein, ,mposrd on the subKqvcnl pun:huc:r A ell' calalogue r(COrd for Ihis book is a'';i,lablc from Ih~ British LibI1lTY. /),J,. /.l1Jr.ry ./C."trtJI C.'/l'pt,,,t-<,,~P"",u,,.,. \1arxiSi litcnry IheoT) : I reader I edlted by Teny u,klon and Drew fo,hlnc. p. m!. Indudcs bibhographical refCTalca and mdu. ISBN G-631-1&579-3.-ISBN Q..631-1&5&I-X (pbk.) I. MarliM literaT) CriUCISffi. I. Eagleton, TCTT)'. 1943- II. Milne, Drew. PN98.C6M28 1996 801' .9i---dc20 95-2102-1 or Ty~ilCl Ln 10 on J2 pi Ehrhardt by PureTtch India Lid., I'ondkherry Printed in GrelU Britlin by T. J Prus Lid, Pad$low, Corn",. . n Thdi book IS prin{td on acld-frtt paper / O'''t<..% I ~ " ,f ~# 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) - 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) vi Contents 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

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This text is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a marxist literary tradition. A compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading marxism, literature, theory and the social possibilities of writing. The collect
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