Marxism 3 Methodologies and Marxist Literary Theorists Marxism
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Marxism 3: Methodologies and Marxist Literary Theorists
Marxism: Focuses Dialectic Materialism -- Marx and Vulgar Marxism Ü Literature, Society & Ideology: Althusser as a focus Ü Marxist Literary Theorists: Jameson and Eagleton Ü Cultural Marxism (if time allows) Ü
Methodologies: Some Suggestions Class relations, economic determinism and the influences of (literary) relations of production in or of the texts Ü Art and ideology: contradictions within some ideologies or between ideologies and reality in a text or a group of texts. Ü Eagleton and Jameson: 1. Materialist, 2. History Ü
Terry Eagleton’s Materialist Criticism General Ideology (GI) Authorial Ideology (AI) The (Au. I) Text Aesthetic Ü Literary Mode of Production (LMP) Ü General Mode of Production (GMP)
Modes of production: General and Literary Ü 1. 2. General Mode of Production (GMP) and Literary Mode of Production (LMP) Every LMP is constituted by structure of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption“ It's important to analyse the complex articulations of these various LMPs with the 'general' mode of production of a social formation. For instance, how oral LMP can keep its traces in a written text.
General Ideology (GI), Authorial Ideology (Au. I) and Aesthetic Ideology (AI) GI is not an "ideal type of ideology in general, " but the dominant ensemble of ideologies in social formation (54). Ü Au. I is the effect of the author's mode of biographical insertion into GI. Ü Aesthetic ideology e. g. of dramatic monologue, stream of consciousness Ü
Jameson’s three horizons of criticism Ü from immanent analysis to transcendent one 1. a level of immanent analysis, = text as a symbolic act 2. a level of socio-discourse analysis, = text as class discourse 3. an epochal level of Historical reading = text as being embedded in a field of forces of the dynamic of various sign systems
Eagleton on history Ü Text Signifier Signified History Signifier Signification Signified IDEOLOGY
Jameson on History Ü History as an absent cause: Ü "it [History] is inaccessible except through textual forms. and. . . our approach to it and to the Real itself necessarily passes through its prior textualization, its narrativization in the political unconscious. " (33)
