Marxist Literary Theory

Introduction.

Part I: Terry Eagleton:.

Introduction.

Part II: Drew Milne.

1. Marx and Engels.

2. Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch (1911): V. I. Lenin.

3. The Formalist School of Peotry and Marxism: Leon Trotsky.

4. Corcerning the Relationship of the Basis and Superstructures: V. N. Volosinov.

5. Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia (1929).

Addendum to 'The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire' (1938): Walter Benjamin.

6. Marxism and Poetry (1935): Ernst Bloch.

7. English Poets: The Period of Primitive Accumulation (1937): Christopher Caudwell.

8. The Relativity of Literary Value (1937): Alick West.

9. A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949): Bertolt Brecht.

10. The Tasks of Brechtian Criticism (1956): Roland Barthes.

11. The Ideology of Modernism (1957): Georg Lukacs.

12. The Semantic Dialectic (1960): Galvano Della Volpe.

13. Commitment (1962) T. W. Adorno.

14. Introduction to the Problems of a Sociology of the Novel (1963): Lucien Goldmann.

15. The Objective Spirit (1972): Jean-Paul Sartre.

16. Tragedy and Revolution (1966), Literature (1977): Raymond Williams.

17. A Letter on Art in Reply to Andre Daspre (1966): Louis Althusser.

18. On Literature as an Ideological Form (1974): Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey.

19. Towards a Science of the Text (1960): Terry Eagleton.

20. Women's Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh (1978): The Marxist-Feminist Collective.

21. On Interpretation (1981): Fredric Jameson.

22. Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' (1987): Aijaz Ahmad.

23. Can the Subaltern Speak?(1988): Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

24. The Materialism of Cultural Nationalism: Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God (1989): Chida Amuta.

25. The Jargon of Postmodernity (1989): Alex Callinicos.

Index.