While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute for Critical Theory, is remembered for his revitalization of Marxist perspectives in literary ...

Cultural or literary critics need a clearly defined historical and political theory to produce genuinely illuminating work. They need, in other words, Marxism. Collini, naturally, disagrees.

In a lesson on “Literary Theory and Criticism” we obtained, students are provided with six lenses through which to examine books they’ve read: Marxist; gender studies & queer theory ...

( MENAFN - The Conversation) The narrator of Michelle de Kretser's seventh novel Theory & Practice is younger than I was when she realises something we all do, eventually: sometimes there can be a ...

psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, as well as the historical progression from new criticism to structuralism, deconstruction, new historicism, and various forms of poststructuralist literary and ...

Mysuru: Ravi Joshi, retired Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, will speak on the topic “Understanding the Political Right ...

‘Always historicise!’ With this resounding imperative, Fredric Jameson opens his third major work of Marxist literary theory, of which the precursors were Marxism and Form (1971) and The Prison-House ...

But the dialectical unity of subject and object renders such ambitions vain (and moreover, since Einstein’s Relativity Theory and Heisenberg’s ... confrères or with the various currents in Marxist ...

Limón's use of Bloom, as well as of Marxist critics Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson, brings Chicano literature into the arena of contemporary literary theory. By focusing on an important but ...

Partly as a result of the influence of Engels, Marx has often been seen as an admirer of Darwin. But in fact Marx disliked Darwin’s theory of natural selection because it left human progress ‘purely ...