01706nam a2200193Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000300009624500740012625000190020026000450021930000260026452011070029065000240139765000400142165000280146165000230148920260630160151.0260630s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780582059764  a801.950 MUL223  aMulhern, Francis, editor. 0c/ edited by Francis Mulhern.aContemporary Marxist Literary Criticism  aFirst edition.  aLondon :bLongman Group UK Ltd. ,c1992.  axii, 278 p. :c22 cm.  aContemporary Marxist Literary Criticism, edited by Francis Mulhern, is an important anthology that surveys the major developments in Marxist literary theory during the late twentieth century. The volume demonstrates how Marxist criticism has evolved beyond traditional economic interpretations of literature to address ideology, culture, politics, language, history, and representation. It provides students with a broad introduction to the principal debates that have shaped contemporary literary and cultural studies. The collection includes essays by internationally recognized critics such as Terry Eagleton, Edward W. Said, Raymond Williams, Fredric Jameson, Tony Bennett, Franco Moretti, Pierre Macherey, and others. These essays examine diverse literary and cultural topics, including the works of Jane Austen, Bertolt Brecht, James Bond, modern aesthetics, popular fiction, and ideology. Together, they illustrate how Marxist criticism analyzes literature as a product of historical, social, political, and economic forces while exploring questions of class, power, culture, and representation.  aLiterary criticism.  aLiterature—History and criticism.  aMarxism and literature.  aMarxist criticism.