Weapons of criticism : Marxism in America and the literary tradition / edited by Norman Rudich.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Palo Alto, CA : Ramparts Press, c1976.Description: 389 pages: black and white illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0878670572
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.04
LOC classification:
  • PN 701  .W4 1976
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Contents:
Part I: Criticism in History: 1. Criticism in History / Fredric Jameson -- 2. Beauty and truth / Sidney Finkelstein -- 3. Literary study and political activism: how to heal the split / Gaylord C. LeRoy -- 4. Culture and the tasks of criticism / David G. Stratman -- 5. Literature and ideology / Lee Baxandall -- 6. Criticism - and self-criticism / Lillian S. Robinson -- 7. Art against imperialism, for the national liberation struggle of Third World peoples / E. San Juan, Jr. --
Part II. Literature in history: 8. Falstaff and his social milieu / Paul N. Siegel -- 9. Sex and politics in Pope's "Rape of the Lock" / Sheila Delany -- 10. William Blake and radical tradition / Fred Whitehead -- 11. Coleridge's "Kubla Khan": his anti-political vision / Norman Rudich -- 12. Balzac and Marx: theory of value / Linda Rudich -- 13. Poe and Dostoevsky: a case of affinity / Louis Harap -- 14. Herman Melville: artist of the worker's world / H. Bruce Franklin -- 15. Henry James, American novelist or: Isabel Archer, Emerson's grand-daughter / Annette T. Rubinstein -- 16. The incest theme in The Great Gatsby: the false poetry of petty bourgeois consciousness / Stephen Zelnick -- 17. Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle and Marxist Figuralism: open dramaturgy as open history / Darko Suvin -- 18. Decolonization and social classes in The Tragedy of King Christophe by Aime Cesaire / Herve and Nicole Fuyet, Guy and Mary Levilain --
Summary: "Maoist and feminist, Third World and traditional, Old Left and New -- American literary critics meet in uneasy dialog, joining forces against the empty formalism, rationalism and decadence of the bourgeois establishment. The major themes of Marxist theory of culture are treated in a wide range of classical, modern and contemporary works ...." -- from the back cover.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection PN 701 .W4 1976 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML21080028

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Criticism in History: 1. Criticism in History / Fredric Jameson -- 2. Beauty and truth / Sidney Finkelstein -- 3. Literary study and political activism: how to heal the split / Gaylord C. LeRoy -- 4. Culture and the tasks of criticism / David G. Stratman -- 5. Literature and ideology / Lee Baxandall -- 6. Criticism - and self-criticism / Lillian S. Robinson -- 7. Art against imperialism, for the national liberation struggle of Third World peoples / E. San Juan, Jr. --

Part II. Literature in history: 8. Falstaff and his social milieu / Paul N. Siegel -- 9. Sex and politics in Pope's "Rape of the Lock" / Sheila Delany -- 10. William Blake and radical tradition / Fred Whitehead -- 11. Coleridge's "Kubla Khan": his anti-political vision / Norman Rudich -- 12. Balzac and Marx: theory of value / Linda Rudich -- 13. Poe and Dostoevsky: a case of affinity / Louis Harap -- 14. Herman Melville: artist of the worker's world / H. Bruce Franklin -- 15. Henry James, American novelist or: Isabel Archer, Emerson's grand-daughter / Annette T. Rubinstein -- 16. The incest theme in The Great Gatsby: the false poetry of petty bourgeois consciousness / Stephen Zelnick -- 17. Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle and Marxist Figuralism: open dramaturgy as open history / Darko Suvin -- 18. Decolonization and social classes in The Tragedy of King Christophe by Aime Cesaire / Herve and Nicole Fuyet, Guy and Mary Levilain --

"Maoist and feminist, Third World and traditional, Old Left and New -- American literary critics meet in uneasy dialog, joining forces against the empty formalism, rationalism and decadence of the bourgeois establishment. The major themes of Marxist theory of culture are treated in a wide range of classical, modern and contemporary works ...." -- from the back cover.

From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

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