E33D / E60B MODULE THREE: STRUCTURALIST MARXISM
Week 9: Structuralist Marxism
Sem. 1: Philosophy of Culture / Social Philosophy: Rethinking the Social Formation
Louis Althusser For Marx:
Sem. 2: Philosophy of Mind: Rethinking Ideology and Human Subjectivity
Louis Althusser "Lenin and Philosophy" and Other Essays:
"Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (also in Leitch; also in Adams and Searle; also in Rivkin and Ryan; also in folder)
Recommended Readings:
Celia Britton "Structuralist and Poststructuralist Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theories" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
William C. Dowling Jameson, Althusser, Marx
Terry Eagleton Marxism and Literary Criticism
Week 10: Structuralist Marxist CRITICAL Theory
Sem. 1: Authorship / Representation
Sem. 2: The Reader / Literary History
Recommended Readings:
Celia Britton "Structuralist and Poststructuralist Psychoanalytic and Marxist Theories" (in Selden, Raman, ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: from Formalism to Poststructuralism Vol. 8)
Terry Eagleton Marxism and Literary Criticism
David Forgacs "Marxist Literary Theories" (in Ann Jefferson and David Robey, eds. Modern Literary Theory)
Praxis:
Terry Eagleton Criticism and Ideology: "T. S. Eliot" (in folder)
WEEK 11: FEMINIST THEORY: Structuralist Marxist EMPHASES
Sem. 1: Philosophy of Mind / Language
Michèle Barrett Women's Oppression Today [1980]: "Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender": Parts I and II (also in Judith Newton, et al., eds. Feminist Criticism and Social Change; also in folder)
Sem. 2: Critical Theory
Barrett, Michèle Women's Oppression Today [1980]: "Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender": Parts III and IV (also in Judith Newton, et al., eds. Feminist Criticism and Social Change; also in folder)
The Marxist-Feminist Literature Collective "Women’s Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh" [1978]: "Theoretical Introduction" (in Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne, eds. Marxist Literary Theory; also in Mary Eagleton, ed. Feminist Literary Theory: a Reader; also in folder)
Week 12: Post-colonial Theory: Structuralist Marxist Emphases
Sem. 1: Philosophy
Sem. 2: Critical Theory