Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism by Mulhern, Francis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents General Editors’ Preface Preface Acknowledgements Introduction

1. Classical perspectives: towards scientific socialism 2. Critical departures 3. Critical classicism and since 4. Results and prospects: notes for now

Rhetorics in history Reading History ‘Cultural Polities’

Notes

1. On Literature as an Ideological Form

Marxist theses on literature and the category of ‘reflection’

Can there be a ‘Marxist aesthetic’? The materialist category of reflection Literature as an ideological form

The process of production of aesthetic effects in literature

Notes

2. Free Particulars: the Rise of the Aesthetic

Notes

3. Pandora’s Box: Subjectivity, Class and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism

I II III IV Notes

4. Jane Austen and Empire

Notes

5. The Moment of Truth: the Geography of Modern Tragedy

Germany: battlefield of modernity Tragedy versus the novel Tragedy and revolutionary politics Notes

6. The Bloomsbury Fraction

The formation of Bloomsbury Godwin and his circle The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood The Bloomsbury fraction The contribution of Bloomsbury Notes

7. Theory of the Avant-garde and Critical Literary Science

The historicity of aesthetic categories The avant-garde as the self-criticism of art in bourgeois society Regarding the discussion of Benjamin’s theory of art Notes

8. Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism

Notes

9. Marxism and Popular Fiction

Literature, popular fiction and the bourgeois literary formation Against Literature Marxist criticism: a deformed materialism

The problem of value The literary and the ideological Questions of political calculation

Notes

10. Licensed to Look: James Bond and the Heroism of Consumption

Thrillers of the spectacle Killing time Thrilling cities For Your Eyes Only Notes

11. Lessons from Brecht

Distance and separation Film theatre Narrative/montage Tradition and domination Cinema Critical theory Notes