Criticism and Ideology

Criticism and Ideology
Title Criticism and Ideology PDF eBook
Author Terry Eagleton
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 264
Release 2020-05-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1789602378

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Terry Eagleton is one of the most important-and most radical-theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. In this new edition of his groundbreaking treatise on literary theory, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism. Ranging across the key works of Raymond Williams, Lenin, Trotsky, Brecht, Adorno, Benjamin, Lukacs and Sartre, he develops a nuanced critique of traditional literary criticism while producing a compelling theoretical account of ideology. Eagleton uses this perspective to offer fascinating analyses of canonical writers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. The new introduction sets this classic book in the context of its first appearance and Eagleton provides illuminating reflections on the progress of literary study over the years.

Marxism and Literary Criticism

Marxism and Literary Criticism
Title Marxism and Literary Criticism PDF eBook
Author Terry Eagleton
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 100
Release 1976-08-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780520032439

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"Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian

Ideology

Ideology
Title Ideology PDF eBook
Author Terry Eagleton
Publisher Verso
Pages 268
Release 1991
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780860915386

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‘His thought is redneck, yours is doctrinal and mine is deliciously supple.’ Ideology has never been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. From the left it can often be seen as the exclusive property of ruling classes, and from the right as an arid and totalizing exception to their own common sense. For some, the concept now seems too ubiquitous to be meaningful; for others, too cohesive for a world of infinite difference. Here, in a book written for both newcomers to the topic and those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different definitions of ideology, and explores the concept’s tortuous history from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Ideology provides lucid interpretations of the thought of key Marxist thinkers and of others such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud and the various poststructuralists. As well as clarifying a notoriously confused topic, this new work by one of our most important contemporary critics is a controversial political intervention into current theoretical debates. It will be essential reading for students and teachers of literature and politics.

Criticism and Ideology

Criticism and Ideology
Title Criticism and Ideology PDF eBook
Author Terry Eagleton
Publisher Verso
Pages 212
Release 2006-08-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781844670802

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Terry Eagleton's witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. Here, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism.

The Crisis of Political Modernism

The Crisis of Political Modernism
Title The Crisis of Political Modernism PDF eBook
Author D. N. Rodowick
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 343
Release 1994
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0520087712

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"Gives a superb critical and polemical overview of the '70s film theory. Rodowick is particularly good at showing both the political stakes of these influential theories and their blind spots."—Constance Penley, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ideology

Ideology
Title Ideology PDF eBook
Author David Hawkes
Publisher Routledge
Pages 225
Release 2004-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1134437757

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With a clear focus on student needs, David Hawkes traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Machiavelli to the present day.

The Romantic Ideology

The Romantic Ideology
Title The Romantic Ideology PDF eBook
Author Jerome J. McGann
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 182
Release 1985-02-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0226558509

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Claiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideology—by an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representations—Jerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the subject that calls for a radically revisionary reading of Romanticism. In the course of his study, McGann analyzes both the predominant theories of Romanticism (those deriving from Coleridge, Hegel, and Heine) and the products of its major English practitioners. Words worth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron are considered in greatest depth, but the entire movement is subjected to a searching critique. Arguing that poetry is produced and reproduced within concrete historical contexts and that criticism must take these contexts into account, McGann shows how the ideologies embodied in Romantic poetry and theory have shaped and distorted contemporary critical activities.