Marxist Literary and Cultural Theories

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Marxist Literary and Cultural Theories

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Marxist literary and cultural theories represent the most significant attempts to understand the relationships between art and society. This text explains current marxist practices through an examination of the key theorists of the twentieth century and discusses the central marxist issues of materiality of culture, the relationship between culture and ideology and the definition of popular culture. It demonstrates the diversity of marxist readings by examining three different texts in the second half of the book, showing the continuing relevance of marxist theories.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART 1: KEY THEORIES
Culture and Society
Culture and Ideology
A Question of Form: The Realism-Modernism Debates
Cultural Studies
PART 2: APPLICATIONS AND READINGS
Interchapter: Marxist Readings
A Labouring Woman Poet in the Age of Pope: Mary Leapor's Crumble Hall (1751)
'The Muffled Clink of Crystal Touching Mahogany': Jane Austen in the 1990s
A Portrait of Modern Times: Reading The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
PART 3: MARXISM FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Interchapter: Beyond 2000: Alternative Futures
The Challenge of Post-Marxism
Utopian Orientations
Appendix: Thomas Carew, To Saxham; Mary Leapor, Crumble Hall (1751)
Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography
Index.

Product details

Published Dec 02 1999
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9780333692134
Imprint Red Globe Press
Dimensions Not specified
Series Transitions
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Moyra Haslett

MOYRA HASLETT lectures in the School of English at…

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