literary theory marxist
Anyone know a good short story to use with Marxist Literary Theory?
I’m starting a unit on critical theory with my American Lit/Comp students. I’m looking for a good short story that we can examine through the Marxist lens. Any ideas?
I’m not sure what you mean but, Maybe you could take Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” or Emerson’s works and then bash them.
Marxist Literary Theory
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Early Writings (Penguin Classics) $9.63 Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the Critique of Hegel’s “Doctrine of the State”, he dissects Hegel’s thought and develops his own views on civil society, while his Letters reveal a furious intellect struggling to develop the egalitarian theory of state. Equally challenging are h… |
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Marxism and Literature (Marxist Introductions) $21.00 This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams’s earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of ‘cultural materialism’ which integrates Marxist theories of language with Marxist theories of literature. Williams moves fro… |
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Marxism and Literary Criticism $9.99 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… |