Search Results for marxist

...Bruce Holsinger; Ethan Knapp The Marxist Premodern Bruce Holsinger University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado Ethan Knapp...

... had also to be examined (25:139, 168).2 How then did Marx and Engels characterize medieval social structure, and what did they identify as the forces producing change within medieval society?3 How have their ideas been put to use in later Marxist work? What are the strengths and weak- nesses...

... and Foucault, de Mann and Derrida, Marx and post-Marxist analysis of ide- ologies pervades our journals. Everywhere we are trained and training our students to analyze the subtle flows of power and the complex forms of ide- ology with their legitimations of partial, contingent interests. Little...

... of a dominant institution, ruling class, or a hegemonic elite” (78). This seems a familiar Marxist version of ideology, perhaps a vestige of the past the authors recall when they made use of “the ideology critique that played a central role in the Marxist theories in which we were steeped.” That was before...

... that draws explicitly on Freud and Lacan, Nietzsche and Foucault, de Mann and Derrida, Marx and post-Marxist analysis of ide- ologies pervades our journals. Everywhere we are trained and training our students to analyze the subtle flows of power and the complex forms of ide- ology with their legitimations...

... very different from that pertaining twenty years ago in medieval and early mod- ern studies. Writing that draws explicitly on Freud and Lacan, Nietzsche and Foucault, de Mann and Derrida, Marx and post-Marxist analysis of ide- ologies pervades our journals...

... has vanished. After poststructuralism’s attack on historicism, continuums of any stripe (teleological, evolutionary, developmental) are decidedly out of favor. (Jameson is the salient exception, holding fast to the Marxist “unin- terrupted narrative” of class struggle.)43 In the wake...

... of ideology critique that forms a mainstay of recent Renaissance criticism, whether Marxist or feminist, psychoanalyti- cal or new historicist. Such critique usually remarks on the political force of textual contradiction, whether it emphasizes authors’ subversive critical consciousness...

... to the trino- mial system (use value, exchange value, surplus value) of Marxist and post-Marxist axiology. On the problematic definition of diplomatic gifts, as against tribute, in late antiquity, see most recently Josef Engemann, “Diplomatische ‘Geschenke’ — Objekte aus der Spätanike...

... of the conditions of possibility for a capitalist mode of production — dispossess an increasing percentage of the population in the sixteenth century, Whitney sees not just patriarchy but patriarchal private property as the problem in the moment of transition to capitalism.11 For a feminist-Marxist...

...- ent from the Marxist notion of class. It rests on the belief that gradations of human society are dictated by nature through inheritance or, in the case of the clerical estate, by a calling from God. In a sermon at Paul’s Cross in 1387, Master Thomas Wimbledon...

... exactly. Microhistory was invented by Italian scholars with a Marxist background. They centred around the Bologna periodical Quaderni Storici and the book series “Microstorie” published by Einaudi in Torino. In 1977, Edoardo Grendi suggested a program of research based on “micro­ analysis.”3...

... is reconstructed, lamented, hoped for again.4 It is a pastoral and literary version of what the Marxist geographer David Harvey has called a “space of hope.”5 There are certain associations between writers and such regions that have become almost antonomastic—that is, the name of a region suggests...

... goes unexplored in early modern English drama. Yet surely, one might argue, scholars have compared the English and Spanish national theaters? Walter Cohen’s groundbreaking Marxist study, Drama of a Nation, led to a surge of interest in the topic.24 Yet the subsequent comparisons are constrained...

... The question of capitalism’s emergence has been much debated by economic and social historians. Two excellent places to enter into this discussion would be Robert Holton’s article, “Marxist Theories of Social Change and the Transition to Capital- 92  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern...

... Noise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xi, 282 pp. $42.00, paper $17.00. [On Shakespeare’s engagement with dangerous and disorderly forms of utterance.] Howard, Jean E., and Scott Cutler Shershow, eds. Marxist Shakespeares. Accents on Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 2001. xii, 304 pp...

..., Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400 – 1800 CE, ed. Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Merry E. Wiesner-­Hanks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 446 – 73, at 461. 15 Marxist critics of the turn make a similar point in the name not of narrative...

... it are complex and have a loaded history, which includes, among other things, an intersection with the marxist critique of ideology that has given it a linger- ing left-leaning connotation. Although a thorough discussion of that his- tory is beyond the scope of my essay, a brief consideration of the etymology...

.... Claire McEachern (Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity Press, 2002), 241. 61 Jonathan Dollimore, “Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism, Feminism and Marxist Humanism,” New Literary History 21 (1990): 487. 62 All citations from Twelfth Night are from The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford...

... features of the text are symptoms of the ground, evidence to be “seen through.” For Hegel, the ground was the World Spirit working through His- tory; for Marxists, it was the Class Struggle; for neo-Kantians like Croce and the New Critics, the ground was Art; for Foucauldians it was Power...