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Marxist Literary Criticism Today by FOLEY, BARBARA.; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Marxist Literary Criticism Today about?

Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that Marxism continues to offer the best framework for exploring the relationship between literature and society. She lays out in clear terms the principal aspects of Marxist methodology - historical materialism, political economy and ideology critique - as well as key debates, among Marxists and non-Marxists alike, about the nature of literature and the goals of literary criticism and pedagogy. Foley examines through the empowering lens of Marxism a wide range of texts: from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey; from Frederick Douglass's 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' to Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain'; from W.B. Yeats's 'The Second Coming' to Claude McKay's 'If We Must Die'. Review “Foley deftly sketches the lineaments of traditional Marxism, then some main interests of traditional criticism, and then shows in readings of literary texts what depth of insight comes from conjoining the two traditions. I warmly recommend this book especially for those who want to change the world as well as interpret it.”

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Author

FOLEY, BARBARA.;

Publisher

Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi);PlutoPress

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786804112

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Literary Criticism