TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Raymond
TI  - Marxism and literature
T2  - Marxist introductions
SN  - 0198760612 (paperback)
AV  - HX531 .W55 1977
PY  - 1977///
CY  - Oxford [Eng.]
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Marx, Karl,
KW  - Communism and literature
N1  - Cover illustrations: detail from a Cuban poster, reproduces The art of Revolution - 96 posters from Cuba, courtesy of McGraw-Hill Book Co; Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-217) and index; Culture -- Language -- Literature -- Ideology -- Base and superstructure -- Determination -- Productive forces -- From reflection to mediation -- Typification and homology -- Hegemony -- Traditions, institutions, and formations -- Dominant, residual, and emergent -- Structures of feeling -- The sociology of culture -- The multiplicity of writing -- Aesthetic and other situations -- From medium to social practice -- Signs and notations -- Conventions -- Genres -- Forms -- Authors -- Alignment and commitment -- Creative practice
N2  - In this book, the author analyzes previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of 'cultural materialism' which integrates Marxist theories of language with Marxist theories of literature; This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of 'cultural materialism' which integrates Marxist theories of language with Marxist theories of literature. Williams moves from a review of the growth of the concepts of literature and idealogy to a redefinition of 'determinism' and 'hegemony'. His incisive discussion of the 'social material process' of cultural activity culminates in a re-examination of the problems of alignment and commitment and of the creative practice in individual authors and wider social groups
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