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Book SynopsisMarxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading Marxism, literature, theory, and the social possibilities of writing.
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
Part I: Terry Eagleton:.
Introduction.
Part II: Drew Milne.
1. Marx and Engels.
2. Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch (1911): V. I. Lenin.
3. The Formalist School of Peotry and Marxism: Leon Trotsky.
4. Corcerning the Relationship of the Basis and Superstructures: V. N. Volosinov.
5. Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia (1929).
Addendum to 'The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire' (1938): Walter Benjamin.
6. Marxism and Poetry (1935): Ernst Bloch.
7. English Poets: The Period of Primitive Accumulation (1937): Christopher Caudwell.
8. The Relativity of Literary Value (1937): Alick West.
9. A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949): Bertolt Brecht.
10. The Tasks of Brechtian Criticism (1956): Roland Barthes.
11. The Ideology of Modernism (1957): Georg Lukacs.
12. The Semantic Dialectic (1960): Galvano Della Volpe.
13. Commitment (1962) T. W. Adorno.
14. Introduction to the Problems of a Sociology of the Novel (1963): Lucien Goldmann.
15. The Objective Spirit (1972): Jean-Paul Sartre.
16. Tragedy and Revolution (1966), Literature (1977): Raymond Williams.
17. A Letter on Art in Reply to Andre Daspre (1966): Louis Althusser.
18. On Literature as an Ideological Form (1974): Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey.
19. Towards a Science of the Text (1960): Terry Eagleton.
20. Women's Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh (1978): The Marxist-Feminist Collective.
21. On Interpretation (1981): Fredric Jameson.
22. Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' (1987): Aijaz Ahmad.
23. Can the Subaltern Speak?(1988): Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
24. The Materialism of Cultural Nationalism: Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God (1989): Chida Amuta.
25. The Jargon of Postmodernity (1989): Alex Callinicos.
Index.
