CONTENTS


HISTORY

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL):
   Epicureanism
   Neoplatonism
   Pre-Socratics
   Pyrrhonian Skepticism
   Sophists
   Stoicism
      Literature & Literary Theory

MEDIEVAL (c.350-c.1400):
   Literature & Literary Theory


EARLY MODERN:
   Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600):
      Literature & Literary Theory

   17th & 18th Century (c.1600-c.1785):
      Literature & Literary Theory

19th CENTURY (c.1785-c.1890):
   Romanticisms & Neo-Romanticisms:
      German & Anglo-American Idealism
      Existentialism
         Literature & Literary Theory
   'Victorian' Positivism:
         Literature & Literary Theory

20th CENTURY:
   Analytic Philosophy:
      Logical Atomism
      Logical Positivism
      Ordinary Language
      Recent

         Aesthetics
   Anglo-American Modernisms:
      'High' Modernism
      Liberal Humanism
      Myth Criticism
      Neo-Aristotelianism
      New Criticism
   Continental Philosophy:
      Idealism:
            Literary Theory

      Marxism:
         Frankfurt School
            Literary Theory
      Phenomenology:
         Existentialism
         Hermeneutics
            Literary Theory

      Psychoanalysis:
         Literary Theory

            Object-Relations Theory
            Jungian Analytical Psychology:
               Literary Theory
      (Post-)Structuralisms:
         Deconstruction:
            Literary Theory

         Deleuzean Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle):
            Literary Theory

         Foucauldian Theory:
            Literary Theory

         Semiotics / Structuralism:
            Literary Theory:
               Russian Formalism

         Structuralist Marxism:
            Literary Theory

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis:
            Literary Theory

   Pragmatism:
      Literary Theory


REGIONS

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

ASIA:
      Central Asia
      East Asia (Chinese):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South Asia (Indian):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South-East Asia


AUSTRALASIA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CANADA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CARIBBEAN:
   Literature & Literary Theory

EUROPE
:
      Central Europe
      Eastern Europe:
         Russia:
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Northern Europe (Scandinavia):
         Literature & Literary Theory

      Southern Europe:
         Greece
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Italy
            Literature & Literary Theory

         Spain
            Literature & Literary Theory

      Western Europe:
         Eire
            Literature & Literary Theory
         France
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Germany
            Literature & Literary Theory
         UK:
            Scotland
            Wales
               Literature & Literary Theory

LATIN AMERICA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

MIDDLE EAST:
   Arabic/Islamic Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Israeli/Jewish Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory

USA
:
   Literature & Literary Theory
   African American:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Native American:
      Literature & Literary Theory


TOPICS

 

ARTS:
   Architecture
   Arts (Performing)
   Arts (Visual and Plastic)
   Film
   Literature:
      Audience
      Author
      Literary Form & Genre:
         Drama
         Poetry
         Prose
      Literary Historicism
      Lit. History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
      Metaliterature
      Literary Representation (Realism)

   Music
 

BEING


COMMUNICATION:
   Interpretation
   Language
        Linguistic Criticism/Literary Stylistics

   Reasoning: Logic, Rhetoric, Argument
 

EDUCATION

 

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT:
   Ecocriticism

 

HUMAN BEING:
   Body:

      Gender (Feminist Theory)
      Race (Critical Race Theory)

      Sexuality (Queer Theory):

         Queer Critical Theory

   Mind:
     
Cognitive & Psychological Criticism

   Self:
      Writing the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY
 

MORALITY:

   Ethical Criticism
 

RELIGION:
   Religion and Literature


NATURAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY:
   Biology & Medical Sciences:

      Darwinist (Evolutionary) Criticism
   Chemistry

   Information Technology
   Mathematics
   
Physics

SOCIAL FORMATION
:

   Culture
   Economics
  
History
   Law

   Politics
   Society
 

SPORTS
 


GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS
CAREERS
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
PHOTOS
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING
WWW GATEWAYS

 


ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS

Feminist Theory:
   Aesthetics/ Critical Theory

Post-colonial Theory:
   Aesthetics / Critical Theory
 

 

MARXIST LITERARY THEORY


SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

Sub-Schools:

Feminist:

Post-colonial:


ASSOCIATIONS

  • Marxist Literary Group

CONFERENCES

2007:

2006:

  • Annual Institute on Culture and Society, Marxist Literary Group, Georgetown University, June 8-12

2005:

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2004:

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2003:

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2002:

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2001:

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2000:

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Annual:

  • Annual Institute on Culture and Society, Marxist Literary Group

COURSES

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Craig, David, ed.  Marxists on Literature: an Anthology.  

    • Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
    • Eagleton, Terry, and Drew Milne, eds.  Marxist Literary CriticismOxford: Blackwell, 1996.
    • Gorky, Maxim, et al.  Problems of Soviet Literature: Reports and Speeches at the First Soviet Writers' Congress, 1934.  New York: International, 1935.

    • Jameson, Frederic, ed.  Aesthetics and Politics: Debates Between Bloch, Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno.  London: New Left Books, 1977.

    • Mulhern, Francis, ed.  Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism.  London: Longman, 1992. 

    • Solomon, Maynard, ed.  Marxism and Art: Essays Classic and Contemporary.  1973.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Berger, John.  Ways of Seeing.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.

    • Gorky, Maxim.  "Comments on Socialist Realism."  Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Ed. George J. Becker.  Princeton: Princeton UP, .  486-488.

    • Plekhanov, George V.  Art and Social Life.

    • Radek, Karl.  "Contemporary World Literature and the Tasks of Proletarian Art."  Gorky, Maxim, et al.  Problems of Soviet Literature: Reports and Speeches at the First Soviet Writers' Congress, 1934.  New York: International, 1935.  Rpt. in Dramatic Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Bernard F. Dukore.  New York: Harcourt BRace Jovanoovich, .  964-969.

    • Zdhanov, Andrei A.  Essays on Literature, Philosophy, and Music.  1950.

    • Zdhanov, Andrei A.  "Soviet Literature: the Richest in Ideas, the Most Advanced Literature."  Gorky, Maxim, et al.  Problems of Soviet Literature: Reports and Speeches at the First Soviet Writers' Congress, 1934.  New York: International, 1935.  Rpt. in Dramatic Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Bernard F. Dukore.  New York: Harcourt BRace Jovanoovich, .  960-964.

    • Zima, Peter V.  Pour une sociologie du texte littéraire.  Paris: Union Générale d'Editions, 1978. 

    • Zima, Peter.  Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Routh, Jane, and Janet Wolff, eds.  The Sociology of Literature: Theoretical Approaches.  Keele: U of Keele, 1977.
  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Arvon, Henri.  Marxist Esthetics

    • Bennett, Tony.  Formalism and Marxism.  London: Methuen, 1979.

    • Bennett, Tony.  Outside Literature.  London: Routledge, 1990.

    • Bernstein, J. M.  Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2006.
    • Bisztray, George.  Marxist Models of Literary Realism.  New York: Columbia UP, 1978.
    • Bowie, Andrew.  From Romanticism to Critical Theory: the Philosophy of German Literary Theory.  London: Routledge, 1996.
    • Bullock, Chris, and David Peck.   Guide to Marxist Literary Criticism.  1980.

    • Demetz, Peter.  1959.

      • Marx, Engels and the Poets: Origins of Marxist Literary Criticism.  Trans. J. L. Sammons.  1967. 

    • Dentith, Simon.  "Marxism and Literary Criticism."  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  368-376.

    • Eagleton, Terry.  Marxism and Literary Criticism.  London: Methuen, 1976.

    • Forgacs, David.  "Marxist Literary Theories."  Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Ann Jefferson and David Robey.  London: Batsford, 1982.  134-169.

    • Goldstein, Philip.  The Politics of Literary Theory: an Introduction to Marxist Criticism.  1990.
    • Harland, Richard.  "The Beginnings of Sociological Criticism: Taine and Marx."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  90-95. 
    • Harland, Richard.  "Marxism and Literary Theory."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  137-145.
    • Laing, Dave.  The Marxist Theory of Art: an Introductory Survey.  1978.

    • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Leftist Criticism from the 1960s to the 1980s."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  366-408.

    • Leitch, Vincent B.  "Marxist Criticism in the 1930s."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  1-23.

    • Lunn, Eugene.  Marxism and Modernism: an Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, ad Adorno.  1982.

    • Selden, Raman.  "Marxist Theories."  A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1985.  24-50.
    • Slaughter, Cliff.  Marxism, Ideology and Literature.  1980.
    • Stacy, Robert H.  Russian Literary Criticism: a Short History.  1974.
    • Williams, Raymond.  Marxism and Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1977.

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