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Marxism 3: Methodologies and Marxist Literary Theorists

Marxism 3: Methodologies and Marxist Literary Theorists. Marxism: Focuses. Dialectic Materialism -- Marx and Vulgar Marxism Literature,Society & Ideology: Althusser as a focus Marxist Literary Theorists: Jameson and Eagleton Cultural Marxism (if time allows).

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Marxism 3: Methodologies and Marxist Literary Theorists

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  1. Marxism 3: Methodologies and Marxist Literary Theorists

  2. Marxism: Focuses • Dialectic Materialism -- Marx and Vulgar Marxism • Literature,Society & Ideology: Althusser as a focus • Marxist Literary Theorists: Jameson and Eagleton • Cultural Marxism (if time allows)

  3. Methodologies: Some Suggestions • Class relations, economic determinism and the influences of (literary) relations of productionin or of the texts • Art and ideology: contradictions within some ideologies or between ideologies and reality in a text or a group of texts. • Eagleton and Jameson: 1. Materialist, 2. History

  4. Terry Eagleton’s Materialist Criticism General Ideology (GI) Authorial Ideology (AuI) Aesthetic Ideology (AI) • Literary Mode of Production (LMP) • General Mode of Production (GMP) The Text

  5. Modes of production: General and Literary • 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. • E.g. circulating library in the Victorian age, oral traces in contemporay novels; novel, hyptertext

  6. General Ideology (GI), Authorial Ideology (AuI) and Aesthetic Ideology (AI) • GI is not an "ideal type of ideology in general," but the dominant ensemble of ideologies in social formation (54). • AuI is the effect of the author's mode of biographical insertion intoGI. • Aesthetic ideology e.g. of dramatic monologue, stream of consciousness

  7. Jameson’s three horizons of criticism • 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

  8. Eagleton on history • Text Signifier Signification Signified IDEOLOGY Signifier Signified History

  9. Jameson on History • History as an absent cause: • "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)

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