Marxism and Literary Criticism

Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and social theory since the nineteenth century.

ISBN	0415285844	Pages	96
ISBN13	9780415285841 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd	Weight (grammes)	136
Imprint	Routledge	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Series title	Routledge Classics
Publication date	13 Jun 2002	Previous ISBN	9780415045834
Library of Congress	2002073434	Height (mm)	198
DEWEY	801.95	Width (mm)	129
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

	Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition
	Preface
1	Literature and history	1
	Marx, Engels and criticism	1
	Base and superstructure	3
	Literature and superstructure	8
	Literature and ideology	15
2	Form and content	19
	History and form	19
	Form and ideology	23
	Lukacs and literary form	25
	Goldmann and genetic structuralism	29
	Pierre Macherey and 'decentred' form	32
3	The writer and commitment	35
	Art and the proletariat	35
	Lenin, Trotsky and commitment	38
	Marx, Engels and commitment	41
	The reflectionist theory	45
	Literary commitment and English Marxism	50
4	The author as producer	55
	Art as production	55
	Walter Benjamin	56
	Bertolt Brecht and 'epic' theatre	59
	Form and production	62
	Realism or modernism?	65
	Consciousness and production	67
	Notes	71
	Select Bibliography	79
	Index	83

'Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics - a real writer.' - Colin McCabe, The Guardian

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