Marxism and Literary Criticism / Edition 2

by Terry Eagleton

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415285841
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/13/2002
Series:	Routledge Classics Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	823,662
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Terry Eagleton is a prominent British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland and Distinguished Visiting Professor of English Literature at The University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Literature and history
Marx, Engels and criticism; Base and superstructure; Literature and superstructure
2. Form and content
History and form; Lukacs and literary form; Goldmann and genetic structuralism; Pierre Macherey and 'decentred' form
3. The writer and commitment
Art and the proletariat; Marx, Engels and commitment; The reflectionist theory
4. The author as producer
Art as production; Walter Benjamin; Bertolt Brecht and 'epic' theatre; form and production; Realism or modernism?; Consciousness and production
Select bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics - a real writer.
—The Guardian

Colin McCabe

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

‘Marxism and Literary Criticism is amazingly comprehensive for its brief format. Eagleton has been able to sum up the main areas of Marxist criticism in the West today.' - Times Literary Supplement

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