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Marxist Literary Criticism Today
Marxist Literary Criticism Today
Marxist Literary Criticism Today
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*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019*

*Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019*

Why Marxism? Why today? In the first introduction to Marxist literary criticism to be published in decades, Barbara Foley argues that Marxism continues to offer the best framework for exploring the relationship between literature and society.

She lays out in clear terms the principal aspects of Marxist methodology - historical materialism, political economy and ideology critique - as well as key debates, among Marxists and non-Marxists alike, about the nature of literature and the goals of literary criticism and pedagogy.

Foley examines through the empowering lens of Marxism a wide range of texts: from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey; from Frederick Douglass's 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' to Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain'; from W.B. Yeats's 'The Second Coming' to Claude McKay's 'If We Must Die'.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPluto Press
Release dateFeb 20, 2019
ISBN9781786804129
Marxist Literary Criticism Today
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Barbara Foley

Barbara Foley is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark. She has published widely in the fields of Marxist criticism, US literary radicalism, and African American literature. Her books include Marxist Literary Criticism Today (Pluto, 2019), Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Duke University Press, 2010) and Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (University of Illinois Press, 2003).

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    What I love about the book is that it takes up where Terry Eagleton left off. The author's language is straightforward but one of the most profound reviews of Marxism I have ever read even after many years of activism. It helped me with a lot of confusion concerning Marxist thought as a tool, in my case for writing and the creation of the literary text in the dominant mode of production that we actually live in. I also value the tremendous objectivity of the book, refreshingly non-sectarian and placing a huge value in debate instead of dogma.

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