Formalism and Marxism (New Accents)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 5
DEDICATION......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14
Questions of language......Page 18
Questions of literature......Page 21
Questions of aesthetics......Page 25
Russian Formalism: theoretical perspectives......Page 34
Reassessing Formalism......Page 42
Historical perspectives on Russian Formalism......Page 46
New directions in Marxist criticism......Page 54
Linguistics and literature......Page 62
The question of literariness: criticism and its object......Page 64
The system and its elements: form and function......Page 69
Against the ‘metaphysic of the text’......Page 75
The problem of literary evolution......Page 80
The accomplishments of Formalism......Page 86
Saussure’s magic carpet......Page 91
Bakhtin’s historical poetics......Page 96
‘Literature’ as a historical category......Page 104
Formalism: a lost heritage......Page 118
Marxist criticism: aesthetics, politics and history......Page 122
Literature’s ‘non-said’......Page 130
On practices......Page 134
On ideology......Page 135
On science......Page 142
On art and literature......Page 144
The lessons of Formalism......Page 152
A new idealism......Page 156
Criticism and politics......Page 163
The post-Althusserians......Page 170
Modes of literary production......Page 176
Literature and the social process......Page 184
INDEX......Page 222
NOTES......Page 206
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 216