STRUCTURALIST MARXISM READING LIST

Renée Balibar (1915 - 1998):

• "National Language, Education, Literature" (1983)

Louis Althusser (1918 - 1990):

• "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1970)
• "Lenin and Philosophy" (1968)
• "A Letter on Art in Reply to André Daspré" (1966)
• "From Capital to Marx's Philosophy" (1965)
• "Freud and Lacan" (1964)
• "Marxism and Humanism" (1964)
• "On the Materialist Dialectic: On the Unevenness of Origins" (1963)

• "Contradiction and Overdetermination: Notes for an Investigation" (1962)

• "On the Young Marx: Theoretical Questions" (1961)

Frederic Jameson (1934 - ):

• Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1990)

• "Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" (1986)

• "The Politics of Theory: Ideological Positions in the Postmodernism Debate" (1984)

• "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" (1984)

• "Cognitive Mapping" (1983)

• The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially-Symbolic Act (1981)

• "Marxism and Historicism" (1979)

• "Criticism in History" (1976)

• "The Ideology of the Text" (1975-1976)

• "Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism" (1975)

• Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (1971)

Michel Pêcheux (1938 - 1983):

• "Discourse: Structure or Event?" (1988)

• Language, Semantics and Ideology: Stating the Obvious (1975)

Pierre Macherey (1938 - ):

• “Y a-t-il une Philosophie littéraire?” (2004)

• "La Philosophie et ses dehors" (2003)

• “Faire de la philosophie en France aujourd’hui” (2000)

• “Science, philosophie, littérature” (2000)

• "A Production of Subjectivity" (1995)

• "Entre la Philosophie et l'histoire: l'histoire de la philosophie" (1994)

• "For a Theory of Literary Reproduction" (1994)

• The Object of Literature (1990)

• "La Philosophie à la Française" (1990)

• "Philosophy as Operation" (1987)

• "In a Materialist Way" (1983)

• "Problems of Reflection" (1976)

• "Literature as an Ideological Form: Some Marxist Propositions" (1974)

• A Theory of Literary Production (1966)

Terry Eagleton (1943 - ):

• After Theory (2003)

• "Capitalism and Form" (2002)

• The Idea of Culture (2000)

• "Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism" (1985)

• The Function of Criticism: from 'The Spectator' to Post-structuralism (1984)

• "Marxism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism" (1984)

• Walter Benjamin, or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981)

• "Ideology, Fiction, Narrative" (1979)

• "Aesthetics and Politics" (1978)

• Criticism and Ideology: a Study in Marxist Literary Theory (1976)

• Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)

• "Ideology and Literary Form" (1975)

John Frow (1948 - )

• Marxism and Literary History (1986)

Colin MacCabe ( - ):

• "On Discourse" (1979)

• "The Discursive and the Ideological in Film" (1979)

• "Theory and Film: Principles of Realism and Pleasure" (1976)

• "Realism and the Cinema: Notes on Some Brechtian Theses" (1974)