Marxism and literary history

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Marxism and literary history

John Frow

Blackwell, 1986

  • pbk

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Includes bibliography and index

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`Marxism and Literary History' is a major reformulation of Marxist literary theory. Through a critique of its precursors (the works of Lukacs, Macherey, Eagleton and Jameson), it seeks to define the strengths and limitations of this tradition, and then to extend its possibilities in a radical reworking of the concept of discourse. `Frow has produced a valuable book, which certainly ought to be studied by Marxists interested in the stance to take towards post-structuralism and by theorists of other persuasions interested in arguments against simplified Marxist and non-Marxist appeals to history.' Jonathan Culler `ambitious and provocative' Times Literary Supplement.

Table of Contents

  • Marxism and structuralism
  • discourse and power
  • Russian formalism and the concept of literary system
  • for a literary history
  • intertextuality
  • text and system
  • limits - the politics of reading.

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