...Daniel T. McGee Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Daniel T. McGee, a doctoral student in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University, is currently completing his dissertation, “Modernism, Fascism, and the Poetics of Untranslatability.” Post-Marxism...

...David Simpson Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism, and Cultural Materialism . By John Higgins. London: Routledge, 1999. ix + 229 pp. $75.00 cloth, $23.99 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 05-Reviews 10/3/00 9:45 AM Page 545 Reviews...

... of an aesthetics and politics of realism via the seminal text on caste, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), which sets a literary precedent for the representation of untouchability. In it modernist form allows for a particular reading of untouchability; through the abstractions of both Marxism and metaphor...

..., Isherwood’s place in the leftist and queer canons must be reconstituted, as should the relationship between certain strains of Soviet Marxism and queer writing of the period. Far from a lukewarm socialist in his youth who later became a middlebrow bourgeois figure in gay literature, Isherwood offers a queer...

.... Brought back to China and transformed by Chinese scholars who had studied with Babbitt, New Humanism became a counternarrative to the May Fourth Movement, to Marxism, and to radicalism in general. This essay delineates the roles New Humanism played in China, its internal contradictions, and its intricate...

...” forces of change within the institutional system of literature and for “extrinsic”pressures of mode of production, social formation, ideology, and so on. Richter then draws on three methodologies, Marxism, formalism, and reception theory, for the demonstration at the core of The Progress...

... philosophical thinking has had a tremendous impact on present-day Chinese literary theory and criticism. Especially since the publication of Fredric Jameson’s Marxism and Form in Chinese, Chinese academics have studied Sartre as a key Western Marxist theorist and a pioneering figure among French Marxist...

... a connection between Maoism, or a “Marxism with Chinese characteristics,” and (revolutionary) universalism via Badiou, the ardent French Maoist. Wang writes that “since the Cultural Revolution has been and will continue to be recorded in history and critically studied by researchers, it would be more...

... Marxism of Althusser) and the “wake of theory” (the years of post- structuralism, of fascination first with China and then with New York, and of the dissolution of the totalizing gestures of theory proper), as well as between Tel @el and Injini. He argues that the early literary @*se deposition...

... and Russian Formalism. By FREDRICJAMESON. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. xi + 230 pp. $9.00. Fredric Jameson is a glutton for “isms.” In Marxism and Form (1971) he sought to survey the broad sweep of modern Marxist criticism. In the present book he tackles a vast body...

...-year-old tradition of literary study and literary theory. It should not be all that difficult for them to do without “Western values” and to return to their roots in those old traditions. Reconciling those with the distinctively Chinese Marxism might be a problem, however. The three Chinese authors...

.... Engaging psychoanalysis and Marxism seized our attention, as in Fredric Jameson’s Political Unconscious (1981), and so too did the work of Michel Foucault, which Jameson kept his distance from. Eve Sedgwick’s Between Men (1985) made enlivening use of René Girard’s theory of mediation to achieve what...

... Contract (1996) and Thomas Pfau’s Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Pro- 3 Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 105–6. 4 See esp. Poovey, “Aesthetics and Political Economy...

... Contract (1996) and Thomas Pfau’s Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Pro- 3 Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 105–6. 4 See esp. Poovey, “Aesthetics and Political Economy...

... Contract (1996) and Thomas Pfau’s Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Pro- 3 Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 105–6. 4 See esp. Poovey, “Aesthetics and Political Economy...

... thought this aspect of the fascist ideal society commendable, in any case. He quotes (“La Crise du marxisme,” pp. 181-2) with apparent approval a remark of Taine to the effect that the people of the 17th century, and even of the Middle Ages, had been happier by far than were the peoples...

..., in the aftermath of the Colin McCabe affair at Cam- bridge University, which had pitted traditional literary study against what we now refer to roughly as “theory,” Raymond Williams published “Marxism, Structuralism, and Literary Analysis.” He took the long view...

... an “imaginary resolution of a real contradic- tion.”6 This strong division between idea and matter, the imaginary and the real, takes the sting out of semi-independence. Jameson’s Marxism gives literature a prominent position, but it always remains a secondary 5 Jameson’s Late Marxism: Adorno...

... a crucial relationship with the sacred; the tension between the sacred and the secular is palpable in every case. On the other hand, one critic invoked repeatedly in Jaussen’s study is Fredric Jameson. Does Marxism, especially utopian Marxism (which also has a prophetic dimension), provide as effective...

... failure Marxism autobiography hieroglyphics Almost Worthless : Edward Upward s Failures Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg Abstract Edward Upward s revolutionary impulses were doomed to failure. A die-hard Marxist, he quit the British Communist Party in the mid-1940s because it was not adequately Leninist...