Table of Contents:

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: in defense of politics -- Marxism and the humanities -- Classical versus cultural Marxism -- Historical varieties of cultural marxism -- Lukacs' procommunist realism -- Trillings' anticommunist realism -- The Frankfurt school of social theory -- Poststructuralist Marxism -- New criticism as/contra politics -- Empiricism as a literary tradition -- The liberal empiricism of I.A. …”

Table of Contents: “…Mutations of critical ideology -- Categories for a materialist criticism -- Towards a science of the text -- Ideology and literary form -- Marxism and aesthetic value.…”

Table of Contents: “…Implication -- Metaphor in the text -- Metaphor in the language -- Linguistics and interpretation --'Leda and the swan': three approaches -- The text and the external world -- Deconstruction and scepticism -- Ambiguity and self-contradiction -- Free play -- Norms for interpretation -- Ideology and opposition -- Hidden ideology -- Marxism and the dominant ideology -- The moral and the political.…”

Table of Contents: “…Colonialisme et néo-colonialisme -- 6-7. Problèmes du marxisme (2 v. ) -- 8. Autour de 68 -- 9. Mélanges -- 10. …”

Table of Contents: “…A Small History of Rhetoric -- 3. On Textuality -- 4. Marxism and Deconstruction -- 5. Carnival and Comedy: Bakhtin and Brecht -- 6. …”

Table of Contents: “…Penelope's web -- Paul de Man and the politics of deconstruction -- Martin Heidegger and pagan gods -- Paul de Man and the poetics of prevarication -- French shame and the new theory -- Collaborators and deconstructors -- Deconstruction and the SS connection -- Marxism, humanism, and literature in the university -- And what are you, reader? …”

Table of Contents: “…Eliot -- Criticism as pure speculation / John Crowe Ransom -- Literature as an institution / Harry Levin -- Psychology and form / Kenneth Burke -- Freud and literature / Lionel Trilling -- Marxism and literature / Edmund Wilson -- Private experience and public philosophy / William Phillips and Philip Rahv -- I.A. …”

Table of Contents: “…Adorno -- From Minima Moralia -- Georg Lukács -- The ideology of modernism -- Terry Eagleton -- Categories for a materialist criticism -- Raymond Williams -- From Marxism and literature -- Fredric Jameson -- From The political unconscious -- Jürgen Haberman -- From The philosophical discourse of modernity -- 6. …”