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Paperback: 95 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (1 Jul 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0520032438
ISBN-13: 978-0520032439
Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.8 x 0.7 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars A comprehensive overview of Marxist theory..., 18 Jul 2007

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This review is from: Marxism and Literary Criticism (Routledge Classics) (Paperback)

Terry Eagleton's "Marxism and Literary Criticism" is a short, and therefore accessible, introduction to the principle theories of Marxist thought with regard to literary criticism; highlighting the individual thinkers from Marx and Engels, to Lenin and Trotsky, thru to Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht.
Eagleton explores the various concepts of key Marxist critics including Marx himself, noting also the limited nature that all criticism faces, while purposing to prove that Marxist Criticism is more than merely a "sociology of Literature" by arguing that Marxist criticism "...has its significant, if not central, role to play in the transformation of human societies" and not without a subtle sense of irony Eagleton admits, while necessarily including himself:

"Critics are not just analysts of texts; they are also (usually) academics hired by the state to prepare students ideologically for their functions within capitalist society."

It is an easy to read preparatory guide that provides a full bibliography to encourage those readers wanting to explore the depths and varieties of a Marxist approach to literary criticism by reading the Marxist Critics themselves.
Despite being thirty years old, the book - having been first published in 1976 - still remains relevant in that it highlights the relevance of Marxist thought to our contemporary Twenty-First century. It could be asked, as Eagleton does, how is Marxism relevant today other than being anything more than an historical point of view; with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the increasing industrialization of China, and the fall of the Berlin Wall? Eagleton writes in the new 2002 Preface:

"Marx and Engels envisaged a world in which globalized market forces reigned supreme, careless of the human damage they inflicted, and in which the gap between rich and poor had widened intolerably."

Today this gap between the rich and the poor is still increasing and many in developing countries are forced to subsist on less than a dollar a day, while those at the helm of the capitalist globalization are filling their platinum-lined pockets with immeasurable and indecent profit. As long as the world remains in such a crisis, then Marx will be relevant; and as long as Marx is relevant, his thought on artistic and literary production remains contemporary. Though Marxism has ultimately failed in political practice throughout history; it has, Eagleton proclaims, as a theoretical tool for the study of literature, still much to offer.
"Marxism and Literary Criticism" is therefore essential reading for those who require an initial introduction to this particular branch of criticism; a comprehensive overview of Marxist theory: thus, it proves to be a vital and important stepping stone towards the reading of Marxist criticism as a whole.

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