190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-century literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism created its own reverberations by offering a ground-breaking new interpretation of the Formalists' achievements and demanding a new way forward in Marxist criticism.
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Part 1: Formalism Revisited 1. Criticism and literature 2. Formalism and Marxism 3. Russian Formalism: clearing the ground 4. Formalism and beyond Part 2: Marxist criticism: from aesthetics to politics 5. Marxist versus aesthetics to politics 6. Science, literature and ideology 7. The legacy of aesthetics 8. Work in progress 9. Conclusion
Biography
Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK. He is author of Culture: A Reformer's Science (1998) and Outside Literature (1990).
