English 420: Critical Theory
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Reserve Reading
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Reserve Reading
Terry Eagleton, from
Marxism and Literary Criticism
or James Kavanaugh, "
Ideology
" (required)
Raman Selden & Peter Widdowson, from "
Marxist Theories
" (recommended)
Karl Marx, excerpts from
The German Ideology
and
The Critique of Political Economy
(recommended)
Fredric Jameson, from
The Political Unconscious
(recommended)
Naomi Klein, from
No Logo
Thomas Frank, "
Brand You: Better Selling Through Anthropology
" (
Harper's
Magazine, March 1998; adapted from
The Conquest of Cool
)
Selected Web Resources
k.i.s.s. of the panopticon:
Walter Benjamin
|
Antonio Gramsci
|
Fredric Jameson
|
Karl Marx
|
discourse analysis
|
www.theory.org.uk:
Antonio Gramsci
|
hegemony
Fredric Jameson
(William McPheron, Stanford U)
Terry Eagleton, "
Base and Superstructure Revisited
" (
New Literary History
31:2 [2000] – HSU users only)
Daniel Chandler,
Marxist Media Theory
.
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