MODULE III: TOPICS COVERED: STRUCTURALIST MARXISM

THEORISTS

AUTHOR
(the expressive approach)

REPRESENTATION
(the mimetic approach)

READER
(the pragmatic or reader-response approach)

TEXT
(the objective or formalist approach)

LITERARY HISTORY / INTERTEXTUALITY

Terry Eagleton

"Categories for a Materialist Criticism"

"Towards a Science of the Text"

  

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Étienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey "On Literature as an Ideological Form"

  

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Michèle  Barrett
"Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender"

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Abdul JanMohamed Manichean Aesthetics

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U indicates that this concept (e.g. the author) is a major concern of the theorist in question;
! indicates that this concept (e.g. representation) is a minor concern of the theorist in question;
A blank indicates that this concept is of little or no concern to the theorist in question.