Marxist Literary Theory

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His works include The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990) Literacy Theory: An Introduction (1983), Walter Benjamin (1981) and Marxism and Literacy Criticism (1976).Drew Milne is a lecturer in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex.

• 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.