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Homer, Sean. "Fredric Jameson : beyond a Marxist hermeneutic?" Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1995. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14775/.
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This thesis provides a critical study of the theoretical work of the North American Marxist theoretician and critic Fredric Jameson. Jameson has been described as probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today and yet there has been no major study of his work published to date. This thesis sets out to contribute to such a study. One reason for Jameson's relative critical neglect has been his adherence to a tradition of Marxist thought, that both within Marxism itself and theoretical discourse in general has been superseded by Structuralist and more recently Post-structuralist modes of thought. The first chapter, therefore, provides an exposition of Jameson's Hegelianism which is rather more sympathetic to Hegel and dialectical theory than the accounts one usually encounters today filtered through Structuralist and Post-structuralist readings. The following three chapters focus upon key areas of theoretical debates that have emerged over the last two decades - that is, questions of history and representation, desire and subjectivity and finally postmodernism. The concluding chapter returns to the concerns with which this study opened and once more reflects upon issues of totality, politics and style from the perspective of having worked through Jameson's own corpus of work.
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Chihota, Clement. "Towards Marxist stylistics: incorporating elements of critical discourse analysis into Althusserian Marxist criticism in the interpretation of selected Zimbabwean fiction." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13117.
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Includes bibliographical references.The thesis - which locates itself at the interface between linguistic and literary studies - explores the possibility of developing a ‘Marxist- stylistic’ method of text interpretation, which primarily proceeds from Althusserian Marxist Criticism, but which also incorporates salient elements of Critical Discourse Analysis. In construction of the method, the thesis first investigates the need for Althusserian Marxist criticism to be mediated, and more specifically, the areas in which this mediation is required. The thesis then crosses over to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis where it identifies relevant theoretical and methodological resources that are capable of mediating the ‘gaps’ identified in Althusserian Marxist criticism. The construction of the Marxist stylistic method is then effected through the transfer of germane theoretical and methodological resources from Critical Discourse Analysis to Althusserian Marxist criticism. The distinctive properties of the emergent Marxist-stylistic method are delineated before the method is practically applied to the interpretation of at least four fictional texts – all written and set in Zimbabwe. The key outcome of the thesis is that a distinctive method of text interpretation, which meaningfully separates itself from Althusserian Marxist criticism, on the one hand, and Critical Discourse Analysis, on the other, emerges. The thesis concludes with a reflection on the application of the method and makes some suggestions for further research and development in the area herein labelled as ‘Marxist stylistics.’
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Tavidian, Amy Elizabeth. "Marxist allegory in Jack London's Alaskan Tales." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/565.
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Baglama, Sercan Hamza. "Rethinking Marxist aesthetics : race, class and alienation in post-War British literature." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12322/.
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A literary text subjectively fictionalizes and narrates one dimension of the total structure of an epoch; it reveals the reciprocal interplay between personal experiences and historical formations through the aesthetic incarnation of a unique personal perspective on the real that is also derived from a social position and origin in relation to a social structure. In order to analyse economic, cultural and political histories in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century mediated through the represented experiences of characters in fictions of the post-war period, this dissertation focusses on the literary works of four different post-war authors, Alan Sillitoe, Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing and James Kelman. Each of these writers depicts a wide range of social, cultural and political circumstances and interactions in their special historical modes in order to expose specific dimensions out of the totality of real life through the depiction of the multifaceted and subjective experiences of fictional characters. Alan Sillitoe’s literary works literalize the class antagonism constructed upon the dichotomy of ‘them’ and ‘us’ through the inner and outer conflicts of the ‘white’ working-class characters and portray the socio-historical reality of class consciousness and its emergence as part of the particular and complex historical conditions pertaining in the UK; Sam Selvon’s novels provide a different interpretation of migrant-ness and displacement and fictionalize the poverty and misery of his ‘black’ working-class characters in relation to the mass migration flows facilitated by the Nationality Act of 1948; James Kelman portrays and mediates the disintegrating and alienating impacts of post-industrial capitalism upon the Scottish working-class characters, reveals the victimization process of the Scottish working-class characters by governmental authorities and bureaucracy, and adds a third dimension to the discussion centred around race, nationality and class; Doris Lessing’s fiction helps articulate the discussions in the UK regarding the rejection of the dominant orthodoxy in the Labour Party and of the legacy of Stalinism and the employment of a range of reforms on issues like gender, sexuality and civil rights during the formation of the New Left. This dissertation mainly argues that class still matters and that, if it is to be adequately demonstrated, there is, therefore, a strong argument for a return to the writings of Karl Marx, to the Marxist concept of alienation, and to Marxist economics rather than simply drawing on the tradition of Marxist aesthetics – the most pervasive way in which Marxism has entered literary criticism. In this context, I attempt to justify the still valid ‘lessons’ of Marxism’s historically concrete theoretical approach as well as Marxism’s still valid historical power. I hope to reveal Marxism’s distinctive relevance to the process of estrangement, atomization and reification in post-war society in order as well to offer a refutation of the current standard criticisms and dismissals of Marxism. This dissertation, focusing on prominent new class approaches as well as theoretical studies and debates on race and ethnicity in Marxist literature, will frame an analysis through an approach to the question of estrangement. The overall aim is to reconceptualise the broader economic, cultural and social framework of the processes of alienation and of escape mechanisms employed by the individual as defence mechanisms in capitalist cultures. Over the course of the study, it will also be suggested that the concept of identity should be taken into account in a more radically intersectional manner and that one-dimensional postmodern identity politics is unable to give a materialistic articulation of poverty and subordination within the larger context of global economics. The thesis develops an anti-establishment, egalitarian and emancipatory framework in reading its authors: one which might also be implemented as part of a movement that aims to critique, resist and overthrow injustice and oppression.
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Ware, Guy Mathew. "A vision of the Last Judgement : Marxist aesthetics and Blake's minor prophecies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316872.
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Nilsson-Tysklind, Emma. "Marxist Comrades or Capitalist Pigs? : From Musical Proletarians to Musical Capitalists in Roddy Doyle's The Commitments." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-3421.
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Marxist themes of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments have not often been looked at. Yet, they are decidedly prominent. The band make use of a Marxist image and of collectivist easy-played, easily-understood music in order to gain working class listeners. In fact, the band itself is based on an egalitarian structure, until it, due to an increasing individualist wish for success, falls apart. The aim of this essay is thus to argue, through pointing to the Marxist rhetoric of the band and the hypocrisy around it, and through a comparative reading between The Commitments and Orwell’s Animal Farm, that The Commitments has an allegorical value, much like Animal Farm does, when it comes to depicting the way Marxism has worked and failed as it has been practised in reality.
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Yin, Zhiguang. "The politics of art : Creation Society and the making of Chinese Marxist individuality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609835.
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Carr, Jeff. "A Spectre is Haunting Samuel Clemens: A Marxist Critique of Wealth as Resolution in Mark Twain's Novels." TopSCHOLAR®, 2006. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/447.
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The distribution of wealth occurs frequently in Mark Twain's novels, especially at the resolution. Indeed, Twain uses wealth as resolution in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. The repeated use of this formula in the author's approach to novel writing indicates the tremendous influence that capitalism had in shaping his worldview. In his early works, Twain appears to endorse capitalism in his use of wealth as resolution. Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and Huckleberry Finn each conclude with the distribution of capital as a reward to the protagonists and as an effective solution to conflicts presented throughout the texts. However, the tone of Pudd'nhead Wilson is decidedly different. This later novel ends with wealth as resolution, but the result is not the happiness granted to characters in Twain's previous works. Instead, the fates of Tom Driscoll, Chambers, and Roxy leave the reader with a sense of the inadequacy of capitalism. Twain's change in his approach reveals a rejection of bourgeois values. An examination at the resolution to all four novels reveals Twain's shifting Weltanschauung, culminating with a rejection of the dominant ideology in Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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Hetrick, Katherine Elaine. ""Having it both ways" navigating Terry Eagleton's contemporary identities /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1703233331&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Salman, Malek Mohammad. "Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1990. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/403/.
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This study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period. It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies. We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance. Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or located in a radical, political outlook.
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Vieira, Denise Adélia. "A literatura, a foice e o martelo." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2004. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2981.
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Esta dissertação procura analisar a temática proletária nas letras brasileiras, propondo o seguinte recorte cronológico e temático: do socialismo e anarquismo da Belle Époque, ao comunismo do entre-guerras. Para tanto, os três capítulos da dissertação exploram desde as primeiras leituras da doutrina marxista no Brasil, passando pela literatura anarquista, até a produção dos romances proletários. O trabalho registra as referências de Machado de Assis e Euclides da Cunha a Marx. Conta também a trajetória anarquista de Lima Barreto e seu apoio à Revolução Russa de 1917, além de discutir a relação dos intelectuais com o comunismo desde o ano de 1922 até a década de 30. Finalmente, destaca o romance proletário através de três obras: O Gororoba (1931), de Lauro Palhano, Cacau (1933), de Jorge Amado, Parque Industrial (1933), de Patrícia Galvão. Objetivou-se, dessa maneira, resgatar, entre nós, a temática proletária, esquecida à margem pelo cânone.
This dissertation aims to analyse the proletarian theme in the Brazilian literature, suggesting the following chronological cut: from the socialism and anrchism of the belle époque to the communism of the period between the First and Second Wars. To do so, the three chapters of the dissertation explit since the first readings of Marxist doctrine in Brazil, passing through anarchist literature until the production of proletarian literature. The work registers the references from Machado de Assis and Euclides da Cunha until Marx. It also tells the anarchist trajectory of Lima Barreto and his support to the Russian Revolution of 1917.The work discusses the relationship of the intellectuals with Communism since the year of 1922 until the 30's. Finally, the proletarian novel is emphasised through three works: O Gororoba (1931) by Lauro Palhano, Cacau (1933) by Jorge Amado, Parque Industrial (1933) by Patrícia Galvão. It was the goal rescue the proletarian thematic among us, since it was forgoteen by the canon.
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Gustafson, Melissa Brown. "The Valuation of Literature: Triangulating the Rhetorical with the Economic Metaphor." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd510.pdf.
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Brooks, Allison Marie. "An Atlas of a Difficult World System: A Marxist Feminist Reading of Adrienne Rich’s Poetry and Prose." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1585837295633261.
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Svensson, Hanna. "Divergent; a Society Divided : An analysis of the factions, their similarities with class from a Marxist perspective and classism." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-83878.
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The background to this essay is that I wanted to analyze the factions in Veronica Roth´s novel Divergent and class from a Marxist perspective. I used a Marxist perspective on social class to find details that matched or looked similar to the novel and did an analysis and comparison between them. I found that a lot of details in how the different factions are described and represented can be compared with classism due to significant similarities, such as social behavior and prioritization among different groups.Bakgrunden till denna uppsats är att jag ville analysera falangerna i Veronica Roths bok Divergent samt klass från ett marxistiskt perspektiv. Jag använde ett marxistiskt persspektiv på social klass för att finna detaljer som matchade eller liknade novellen och gjorde en analys och jämförelse mellan dem. Jag fann att en hel del detaljer gällande hur de olika falangerna är beskrivna och representerade kan jämföras med klassism tack vare signifikanta liknelser, såsom socialt beteende och prioriteringar inom olika grupper.
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Bustamante, Fernando. "Duas revoluções: o percurso estético-político na literatura de John Reed." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-11112014-191146/.
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Estudo da evolução estética e política na obra de John Silas Reed (1897-1920) a partir de, fundamentalmente, duas de suas obras: seu primeiro livro, Insurgent Mexico (México Insurgente 1914) e seu último livro publicado em vida, Ten Days that Shook the World (Dez dias que abalaram o mundo 1919). A partir da crítica materialista-dialética a dissertação aborda o percurso de John Reed e procura demonstrar, numa leitura comparada entre as duas obras, como a transformação da visão política de seu autor se expressa na transformação estética de suas obras. Também se procura fazer uma leitura crítica da recepção de John Reed e a interpretação de sua obra nas décadas posteriores à sua morteA study regarding the aesthetical and political development within the work of John Silar Reed (1897-1920) based upon, fundamentally, two of his books: his first one, Insurgent Mexico (1914), and the last one published in his lifetime, Ten Days that Shook the World (1919). From the dialetical-materialistic standpoint, the study approaches John Reeds life and tries to demonstrate, through a compared Reading between these two books, how the transformation in the authors political view is related to the aesthetical transformation in his writing and literary composition. John Reed works reception and criticism is also critically regarded
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Charléz, Sara. ""A Mere Dream Dreamed in a Bad Time" : A Marxist Reading of Utopian and Dystopian Elements in Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156031.
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In Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel Always Coming Home, utopian and dystopian elements interact according to patterns inspired by anarchism and Taoism to criticise material excesses and oppressive social structures under capitalism. Via discussions of gender, state power, and forms of social (re)production, this Marxist reading proposes that the novel’s separation of utopia from dystopia hinges on the absence or presence of a state. The reading also suggests that the novel’s utopia is by its own admission a “mere dream” with limited relevance to anti-capitalist politics, and employs the novel’s own term “handmind” to show that the aesthetic and philosophical dimensions of its anti-capitalist sentiments encourage a reconsideration of utopia, to be viewed not as a fixed future product – a good-place – but as a constant process of becoming – a no-place.
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Hestetun, Øyunn. "A prison-house of myth? symptomal readings in Virgin land, The madwoman in the Attic, and The political unconscious /." Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35577879j.
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Nkalubo, Arthur. "A Marxist Reading Of Things Fall Apart In The Esl Classrom : Exploring Colonial Socio-economic Exploitation in the Nigerian Context." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45721.
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This thesis aims to explore how a critical reaading of the novel Things Fall Apart (1958) can provide valuable perspective for educators and students when examining socio-economic issues in a colonial context in the ESL classroom. The main issues being analysed are how the novel reveals and explores socio-economic forms of exploitation under colonialism, and how a critical reading of the novel can be used in teaching to inform and persuade learners about social injustices. To show this, the essay examines the novel from a marxist perspective, and more specifically by drawing on the concept of primitive accumulation to understand and explain the changes brought about by the introduction of colonial rule. The changes in this context include the Igbo community's relation to land, its socio-economic and cultural aspects as well as the introduction of trade. The discussion and analysis of the novel centre on social injustices due to land expropriation, breakdown of traditional values and customs, and economic changes brought about by the arrival of Europeans in the context of colonialism. Expanding on this, the essay also reflects on the pedagogical implications of its arguments by showing how a critical reading of Things Fall Apart might provide an opportunity for teachers to underline issues of social injustice, material, and economic forms of exploitation under colonialism and beyond. This literary analysis also discusses and reflects on the practical challenges and possibilities of teaching such issues in the ESL classroom by using the concept of critical literacy.
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Nkalubo, Arthur E. "A Marxist Reading Of Things Fall Apart In The Esl Classrom : Exploring Colonial Socio-economic Exploitation in the Nigerian Context." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45721.
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This thesis aims to explore how a critical reading of the novel Things Fall Apart (1958) can provide valuable perspective for educators and students when examining socio-economic issues in a colonial context in the ESL classroom. The main issues being analysed are how the novel reveals and explores socio-economic forms of exploitation under colonialism, and how a critical reading of the novel can be used in teaching to inform and persuade learners about social injustices. To show this, the essay examines the novel from a marxist perspective, and more specifically by drawing on the concept of primitive accumulation to understand and explain the changes brought about by the introduction of colonial rule. The changes in this context include the Igbo community's relation to land, its socio-economic and cultural aspects as well as the introduction of trade. The discussion and analysis of the novel centre on social injustices due to land expropriation, breakdown of traditional values and customs, and economic changes brought about by the arrival of Europeans in the context of colonialism. Expanding on this, the essay also reflects on the pedagogical implications of its arguments by showing how a critical reading of Things Fall Apart might provide an opportunity for teachers to underline issues of social injustice, material, and economic forms of exploitation under colonialism and beyond. This literary analysis also discusses and reflects on the practical challenges and possibilities of teaching such issues in the ESL classroom by using the concept of critical literacy.
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Basaran, Kaan Evren. "Petty Agricultural Production And Contract Farming: A Case In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609651/index.pdf.
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Understanding the class position of family owned small scale agricultural production units, which constitute a common feature of the rural context in the later capitalized countries, have been one of the major discussion points in the Marxist literature. The continual existence of such a form of production organization with significant non-capitalist features under the enlarging capitalist organization of production despite the initial assumptions of Marxist analysis that it was a transitory form which will soon differentiate between proletariat and bourgeoisie have prompted a number if attempts at explaining the survival of this category. These debates have strongly influenced the analyses in the field of rural sociology from 1960s onwards, providing the conceptual tools for sociological analysis of rural relations of production.
This thesis engages in an attempt of re-appraising the theoretical debates within Marxist analysis of petty agricultural production organization together with considering the recent transnational reorganization of agricultural production. The neo-liberal retraction of state as a regulating force and loosening the protectionist policies has lead to the rise of the power of Trans-National Corporations (TNCs) in the field of agriculture in the past couple of decades. Contractual farming is defined as a major form of direct relationship TNCs establish with petty agricultural producers to exercise their determining power over the organization of agricultural production.
Together with a case study of contractual farming, the thesis discusses how could we define the class positions of this segment and whether their relationship with TNCs have a significant affect over our definitions.
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Iacovetta, Anna C. "Moving Up the Social Ladder: An Analysis of the Role of Temptation in Shaping Characters in Select Fairy Tales Employing Marxist and Psychological Lenses." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1491073505893036.
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Dvorak, John N. "Lukácsian aesthetics in a post-modern world: understanding Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon through the lens of Georg Lukács’ the historical novel." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3896.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of English
Timothy A. Dayton
This thesis project seeks to reconcile the literary criticism of Marxist critic and advocate of literary realism Georg Lukács with the writing of postmodern author Thomas Pynchon in order to validate the continued relevance of Lukácsian aesthetics. Chapter 1 argues that Lukács’ The Historical Novel is not only a valid lens with which to analyze Pynchon’s own historical novel, Mason & Dixon, but that such analysis will yield valuable insight. Chapter 2 illustrates the aesthetic transition from the historical drama to the historical novel by using Lukács’ ideas to explicate The Courier’s Tragedy, a historical drama found within the pages of Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. Chapter 3 applies Lukács’ ideas on the “world-historical” figure and the “mediocre” hero of the classic historical novel to Mason & Dixon. Chapter 4 asserts that Mason & Dixon enables contemporary readers to experience the novel as what Lukács calls a “prehistory” to the present. This chapter also illustrates how the prehistory of Mason & Dixon anticipates Pynchon’s nonfiction essay “A Journey into the Mind of Watts.” Finally, this chapter demonstrates how Pynchon avoids the pitfall of modernization in Mason & Dixon, which Lukács defines as the dressing up of contemporary crises and psychology in a historical setting. Chapter 5 ties together the work of the previous four chapters and offers conclusions on both what Pynchon teaches us about Lukács, as well as what Lukács helps us to learn about Pynchon.
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Chetty, Raj G. "Versions of America : reading American literature for identity and difference /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1528.pdf.
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Bottrill, Graham. "British socialist literature : from Chartism to Marxism." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55629/.
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This thesis is a selected narrative sequence, focusing upon social/political narratives published between 1870 and 1888 in order to connect the literature of Chartism, published in the 1840s and 1850s, with the naturalistic political novels of Margaret Harkness published between 1888 and 1921. The thesis was initially conceived during graduate study undertaken at the University of California in 1981-3. The foundations were fully laid by research undertaken independently during 1989 and 1990, while teaching in New York. Here, the truly inspiring facilities of the New York Public Library made it all real. The complications of returning to England in 1991 and the pressures of earning a living in a non-academic environment resulted in the study being left for many years, though not forgotten. I owe the completion of the thesis to its reception by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University in 2003, and to the rigorous and detailed support from my adviser, Professor Stephen Knight. I would also like to extend my thanks to the facilities of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy for supplying me with prints of rare microfilmed documents, available only from the British Library. Working on such a thesis as a part-time student in addition to full-time and largely unrelated work eats significantly into personal time. I therefore thank my partner, Ruth Hecht, for her support and positive encouragement throughout its composition. Finally, I would like to remember my family, the Bottrills, who lived for many generations between Coventry and Leicester, the men as farm labourers or coal miners in rural pits, the women in domestic service. They lived and worked throughout the period covered by this thesis, and to them ultimately it is dedicated.
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Higgins, John Anthony. "Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23241.
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The guiding principle of this study is that Williams's engagement with English studies cannot be understood in terms purely internal to the discipline of English. As well as writing against the official culture of liberal and conservative literary studies, Williams also wrote in opposition to what he read as the orthodoxies of Marxist thinking on literature, culture and politics. Arguing first against Marxist literary criticism as he knew it from the 1930s, he maintained an ever sceptical and ever critical stance towards the later trends of Althusserian and poststructuralist theory, while at the same time continuing his always defining commitment to socialist politics. While the terms of this larger argument are necessarily present throughout, Chapter Five focuses on them more narrowly, and traces their development in Williams' thinking from the late 1950s through to the development of the concept of cultural materialism in Marxism and Literature in 1977.
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Catalá, Sverdrup Gustavo. "Pedro Páramo, marxismo y psicoanálisis : Una lectura marxista de símbolos en la novela con clave psicoanalítica." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Spanska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27147.
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La novela Pedro Páramo es una obra compleja y susceptible de múltiples interpretaciones en clave simbólica. El presente trabajo muestra una de tales interpretaciones donde marxismo y psicoanálisis obran en conjunción como métodos de análisis literario. En él se extraen conclusiones referentes a la dialéctica histórica como concepción del mundo propia de una clase social, y al mismo tiempo referidas a las estructuras de la personalidad humana surgidas a partir del complejo de Edipo. Un análisis ideológico y psicoanalítico resulta en una lectura simbólica coherente donde la propia ideología es puesta en entredicho y en el que una personalidad arquetípica es perfilada a través de los personajes y su estatus social.
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Gallion, Alexis Ryan Marie. "Her Name is Blood: Situating Gertrude Blood Within the Flaneuse, and Walking Virtually." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1619708258772437.
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Merlyn, Teri, and n/a. "Writing Revolution: The British Radical Literary Tradition as the Seminal Force in the Development of Adult Education, its Australian Context, and the Life and Work of Eric Lambert." Griffith University. School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040616.131738.
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This thesis tells the story of an historical tradition of radical literacy and literature that is defined as the British radical literary tradition. It takes the meaning of literature at its broadest understanding and identifies the literary and educational relations of what E.P. Thompson terms 'the making of the English working class' through its struggle for literacy and freedom. The study traces the developing dialectic of literary radicalism and the emergent hegemony of capitalism through the dissemination of radical ideas in literature and a groundswell of public literacy. The proposed radical tradition is defined by the oppositional stance of its participants, from the radical intellectual's critical texts to the striving for literacy and access to literature by working class people. This oppositional discourse emerged in the fourteenth century concomitant with nascent capitalism and has its literary origins in utopian vision. This nascent utopian imagination conceived a democratic socialism that underpinned the character of much of the following oppositional discourse. The thesis establishes the nexus of the oppositional discourse as a radical literary tradition and the earliest instances of adult education in autodidacticism and informal adult education. The ascent of middle class power through the industrial revolution is shadowed by the corresponding descent of the working class into poverty. Concomitant with this social polarisation is the phenomena of working class literary agency as the means to political and economic agency. While Protestant dissenting groups such as the Diggers and Levellers were revolutionary activists, it was Methodism that formed a bulwark against revolution. Yet it was their emphasis on self-improvement that contributed to an increasingly literate populace. Radical texts produced and disseminated by individuals and organisations and read by autodidactics and informal reading groups are seminal in the formation of a working class identity. Spearheaded by the Chartist movement, education became a central ethic of working class politics and the civil struggle for economic and political justice throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries. The avant garde movements of the early twentieth century are analysed as a strand of this tradition. The narrative of the thesis then moves to the penal colony of Australia and explores the radical literary tradition's development there. Early colonial culture is seen as having a strong impetus towards a developing a native literary expression of the new land. Where conservative colonial literature struggled to differentiate itself from formal British literary models, the radical heritage and its utopian vision of a working man's paradise gave definitive expression to the Australian experience. This expression was strongly influenced by Chartist ideals. The British radical literary tradition is thus seen to have had a dominant influence in the development of a native radical literary tradition that strove to identify the national character. Socialist thought developed in Australia in concert with that in the parent culture, and anarchist and libertarian trends found a ready home amongst independent minded colonials. Yet, in preventing the formation of a native aristocracy the small radical population made a compromise with liberalism that saw a decidedly conservative streak develop in the early labour movement. There were little in the way of sophisticated radical literary offerings at first, but from the mid-nineteenth century a vanguard of radicals produced a thriving native press and other fugitive text forms. At the turn of the century the native radical literary tradition was vibrantly diverse, with a definitive style that claimed literary ownership of the Australian character. However, exhausted by the battles over WWI conscription and isolated by censorship, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was able to subsume the vanguard position from the socialists. The Party laid claim to the Australian radical literary tradition, at once both strengthening it with the discipline of a Marxist ideology and diminishing its independence and diversity. Party literary theory centred upon the issue of class, developing a doctrine of socialist realism that communist writers were expected to practice. How well a writer adhered to socialist realist principles became a measure of their class position and loyalty. Drawing more from primary sources, the thesis develops an analysis of the intellectual development of the Australian post-WWII writer Eric Lambert through his experience of class instability during Depression and war. The study examines Lambert's decision to join the Party and his literary response to his experiences of war, the Party, the turmoil of 1956 and life after the Party. Lambert's body of work is then analysed as the unintentional memoir of a writer working as an adult educator in the radical literary tradition. Lambert's struggles, for artistic independence within the narrow precepts of Party dogma and with class tensions, were common amongst intellectuals committed to the communist cause. Like many of his peers, Lambert resigned from the Party at the end of 1956 and suffered a period of ideological vacuum. However, he continued to write as a Marxian educator, seeking to reveal that which makes us human in the humanity of ordinary people. It is concluded that, while the Party did much to foster disciplined cohesion, the mutual distrust it generated amongst its intellectuals suppressed the independent thought that had kept the radical literary tradition alive. Although the Party developed an ideological strength within the radical literary tradition, its dominance over thirty years and subsequent fall from grace acted to fragment and discredit that centuries-old tradition which it subsumed. An argument is made for a reinvestment of the centrality of the radical literary tradition in the education of adults for the maintenance of social justice and the democratic project.
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Tavares, Débora Reis. "A revolta contra o totalitarismo em 1984 de George Orwell, a formação do herói degradado." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-12022014-125702/.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o último romance de George Orwell, 1984, por meio de alguns de seus elementos literários principais, mais especificamente o estudo do foco narrativo e das personagens. A partir disso, a pesquisa pretende traçar paralelos em torno da questão da possível revolta do personagem principal com o contexto histórico em que o autor estava inserido, suas ideias, as relações com outros elementos de sua obra, dialogando com as afirmações feitas pela fortuna crítica durante as seis décadas de sua publicação. Dessa forma, foram selecionados trechos importantes do livro e de seu apêndice, cujos detalhes foram analisados o emprego de vocábulos, sua função na frase para então observar seu papel na narrativa e relacioná-los a fatores exteriores à obra. Finalmente, ao estabelecer diálogo com a fortuna crítica, buscou-se, na medida do possível, salientar a relevância de 1984 como instrumento de alerta e denúncia contra as mazelas do totalitarismo.The purpose of this research is to analyze the last novel written by George Orwell, 1984, through its main literary tools, which importance gave the possibility to choose within a wide variety of aspects, the study of the narrator and the main characters. With this in mind, this research intends to delineate parallels between the possible rebellion of the main character and the historical context in which the author himself was inserted, his ideas, the links between other elements of his work, discussing it with the statements made by the critics through the six decades from its publication. Hence, it was selected important passages from the novel and its appendix that were analyzed down to very last details, from the use of certain words, their function within the sentence to its role in the novel as a whole and relate them to exterior factors. Finally through establishing a dialogue with the literary criticism it was pursued, as a possible, the underline of the book as an alert instrument and detection against totalitarianism causes.
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Berkemeier, Caleb. "Marx, Marxism, and Human Nature." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1335454402.
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Khmeleva, Elena A. "El tríptico Tolstoyano de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1242252787.
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Patz, Sievers Evelyn. ""Ich bin Spaniolin". Veza Canetti im Fokus ihres jüdisch-sephardischen Erbes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/523540.
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Die drei schlichten Worte „Ich bin Spaniolin” im Titel der vorliegenden literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsarbeit beinhalten das fundamentale Bekenntnis der jüdisch-sephardischen Schriftstellerin Veza Canetti, dessen tiefgreifende Dimension sich im Laufe der biographisch-literarisch-historischen Untersuchungen offenbart haben. Innerhalb von drei konzentrischen Kreisen richtet sich der Hauptfokus auf die judenspanische Identität Veza Canettis. Ein extensiver historischer Rückblick auf das Goldene Zeitalter der Sepharadim auf der Iberischen Halbinsel sowie die Konsquenzen des Vertreibungsedikts von 1492 macht das Festhalten der Sephardim an der spanischen Sprache und Kultur plausibel. Danach wird die literarisch-soziopolitisch fruchtbarste Zeit für jüdische Künstler und Schriftsteller wie Veza (und Elias) Canetti im Roten Wien des Austromarxismus bis zur nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme 1938 und das jüdische Exil in London erforscht. In jedem der konzentrischen Kreise ziehen sich vier relevante themenorientierte Elemente als roter Faden durch die Arbeit:
1. Das Judenspanische als Kommunikationssprache zwischen dem Ehepaar Canetti,
2. der einflussreiche literarische und künstlerische Freundeskreis der Canettis in Wien und im Londoner Exil,
3. die deutsche Literatursprache Veza und Elias Canettis,
4. eine minutiöse Analyse jener Werke, die thematisch mit dem jeweiligen der drei konzentrischen Kreise verbunden sind, d.h. das jüdisch-sephardische Erbe, das Leben mit jüdisch-sephardischen Wurzeln im Wien des sozio-politischen Wandels und zuguterletzt das jüdische Exil in London.
Der erste konzentrische Kreis erforscht das jüdisch-sephardische Erbe Veza Canettis in seiner vollständigen Dimension im Hinblick auf das Leben ihrer Urahnen während des Goldenen Zeitalters Spaniens und Portugals, die Vertreibung der Juden und deren Neuansiedlung in Nordafrika, Nord-/Ost- und Westeuropa, im Osmanischen Reich, auf dem Balkan und Übersee. Die judenspanische Sprache hat sich bis in die Aktualität bewahrt, und zwar in Volksweisen, Sprichwörtern und der Literatur. Die Werkanalysen dieses konzentrischen Kreises beziehen sich insbesondere auf die spanischen Erzählungen „Der Seher” und „Pastora”, in denen die spanische Urheimat Veza Canettis mit der andalusischen Hauptstadt Sevilla als „innerer Idealstandort” leuchtend zutage tritt.
Der zweite konzentrische Kreis untersucht die Einwirkungen der literarischen Strömungen wie die Wiener Moderne, die Neue Sachlichkeit sowie des politischen Wandels der ehemaligen Doppelmonarchie Österreich-Ungarn auf das Leben und Werk Veza Canettis. Hierin werden die beginnende literarische Gemeinschaft mit Elias Canetti, der jüdische Wiener Freundeskreis, die literarischen Vorbilder Veza Canettis, der Austromarxismus als die in Europa beispielhafte Sonderform eines gemäßigten Sozialismus und insbesondere der Inhalt ihrer sozio-politisch-feministischen Kritikpunkte an den bestehenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen ihrer Zeit erforscht.
In der Wiener Zeit entstanden Veza Canettis bedeutendste Erzählungen, die zum Novellenzyklus (Roman) Die Gelbe Straße zusammengefasst wurden. Der Roman Die Schildkröten stellt ein Brückenwerk dar, denn er wurde von Veza Canetti in wenigen Wochen nach ihrer Ankunft im Londoner Exil geschrieben, ist aber zugleich ein lebendiges Zeugnis der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten in Wien 1938 und Verdrängung und Verfolgung der Juden. Zum Glück gelingt den Canettis die rechtzeitige Flucht ins Exil nach London.
Im dritten konzentrischen Kreis wird das jüdische Exil Veza (und Elias) Canettis in London untersucht. Wiederum sind die geflohenen jüdischen Freunde von wesentlicher Bedeutung, sowie die judenspanische Sprache, die Veza und Elias Canetti im privaten Umgang pflegen. Ferner wird den Briefen zusätzliche literarische Wertschätzung beigemessen. Die erforschten Briefe drücken die jüdisch-sephardische Identität Veza Canettis am ehesten aus und enthalten, vor allem die Buchsammlung der Briefe an Georges betreffend, etliche Hinweise auf das Judentum. Die in diesem konzentrischen Kreis untersuchten Werke sind weniger gesellschaftskritisch als in der Wiener Zeit und beschreiben sowohl Kriegserlebnisse wie die Bombardierung Londons („Air raid” und
„Der letzte Wille”) , die Gegenüberstellung von Christen und Juden in „Toogoods oder das Licht”, wie auch Veza Canettis Beobachtungen der britischen Gesellschaft unter humoristischer Perspektive in ihrer Exilkomödie Der Palankin.
Drei Werkübersichten, etliche Dokumente, Fotos und Briefe aus verschiedenen Nachlässen sowie zwei Gesprächs- bzw./Besuchsprotokolle im Anhang komplettieren die literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschungen der vorliegenden Dissertation und führen zu der Erkenntnis, dass eine profilierte Schriftstellerin sich mit ihren literarischen Schriften aus dem Schatten ihres langjährigen Ehemannes herauslöst und mit ihren jüdisch-sephardischen Wurzeln in eigenem Licht erstrahlt: Veza Canetti.Three simple words ”I am a Spaniolin” in the title of the present literary research work appoint to the fundamental belief of the Judeo-Spanish writer Veza Canetti. The profound dimensión of this confession is confirmed trhoughout the biographical, literary and historical research for this thesis. The central focus concentrates – within three concentric circles– on Veza Canetti’s Judeo-Spanish identity including a vaste historical retrospection of the Golden Middle Ages for the Spanish Jews on the Iberic Peninsular, the consecuences of the expulsión of the Sephardim on 1492 in order to make comprehensible their adherence to the Spanish culture and language. Furtheron, the investigation of the fertile literary production of Jewish artists and writers like Veza (and Elias) Canetti during the Austromarxism in Red Viena til the take-over of the Nazis in 1938 and the consecuent Jewish exile in London is described in this thesis. In every concentric circle there are four relevant elements as a red line throughout this paper: 1) Judeo-Spanish as the language of private communication between the Canetti- couple, 2) the influence of their literary and artistic friends in Viena and in London, their exile 3) the German as a literary language for both Veza and Elias Canetti 4) An exhaustive work-analisis of those literary works which are directly related to the head-lines of each concentric circle, as the are the Jewish-Sephardic heritage, living with Jewish-Sephardic roots in Viena and last not least the Jewish exile period in London. The first concentric circle contains the most important part of this thesis: the Sephardic heritage with a wide historic background and analisis of Veza Canettis Spanish works Der Seher and Pastora. The second concentric circle contains the Viena-period. The literary value of the letters is as well contemplated within the third and last concentric circle, as letters are the expression of one’s own identity of Sephardic elements which are always present in Veza Canetti’s letters to her brother-in-law Georges and friends and editors. Three tables of Veza Canetti’s Works, numerous documents, photographs and letters out of different legacies, as well as two reports of conversations and visits, to be found in the Annex, complete the new results of this literary research thesis about Veza Canetti’s Judeo-Spanish roots.
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Points, J. "Marx's concept of determination : Literature and cognition." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383487.
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Freeman, Bradley M. "Asian American Radical Literature: Marxism, Revolution, and the Politics of Form." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405525061.
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Nilsson, Emilia. "Dagermans arbetande män : En marxistisk och maskulinitetsteoretisk analys av Stig Dagermans Streber." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för kommunikation, litteratur och svenska, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-170848.
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Uppsatsen undersöker hur marxistiska och maskulinitetsteoretiska maktstrukturer påverkar relationerna mellan de fyra huvudkaraktärerna i Stig Dagermans dramatext Streber. Karaktärerna analyseras utifrån texten i Judasdramer från 1949. Analysen utgår ifrån repliker, karaktärsbeskrivningar och scenanvisningar. I uppsatsen analyseras hierarkiska positioner utifrån den marxistiska teorin med fokus på klasstillhörighet och socioekonomiska förutsättningar, följt av maskulinitetsteorin med fokus på maskulinitetstyper samt maskulinitetsnormer. De bägge analysperspektivens resultat sammanförs i ett intersektionellt perspektiv och används för att placera in karaktärerna i schematiska modeller. Dramat har inför analysen delats in i tre delar vilket innebär att man genom analysen följer karaktärernas utveckling genom tre olika schematiska modeller. De schematiska modellerna och analyserade exemplen visar slutligen hur olika ekonomiska, sociala och könsrelaterade maktfaktorer påverkar relationerna mellan dramats huvudkaraktärer samt deras relationer till övriga av dramats karaktärer.
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Bier, Felipe. "Formação e realismo: forma e história em Sagarana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-09092016-131350/.
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Esta tese tem como objeto a formação histórica da obra de João Guimarães Rosa. Com foco nas narrativas de seu livro de estreia, Sagarana, de 1946, o texto trabalha com a seguinte hipótese: no livro, para além da experimentação de técnicas literárias que marcam a obra de Rosa como um todo, há nele a preocupação com um objeto histórico que é o sertão. A tese passa pela caracterização deste objeto, formado, a nosso ver, a partir das tensões políticas da Primeira República. O acompanhamento do objeto em Rosa também pressupõe uma inserção do autor na tradição da literatura brasileira pós-1930, em que a autonomia do objeto-sertão passa ao proscênio da representação. Chega-se assim à segunda hipótese do texto: esta autonomia e a importância do sertão para a literatura de 1930 a 1964 ligam-se às próprias dinâmicas que impulsionaram o país à industrialização. As novas necessidades emergidas do capitalismo industrial em gestação põem em primeiro plano o destino das populações pobres no sertão, das quais dependem sem reservas. A terceira hipótese trabalhada na tese é, portanto, a de que o tratamento sério do objeto-sertão em Rosa oferece um desafio às teorias formativas: tanto a forma rosiana como as teorias sociais que se preocuparam com a formação do país teriam se alimentado do mesmo empuxo integrativo sob a indústria; mas o objeto-sertão funcionaria como outro à utopia que atribuiu a essas dinâmicas a capacidade de construir uma cidadania efetiva no país. A tese demonstra como a atenção de Rosa a este objeto muito específico as revoluções da matéria social do sertão tem como consequência, em sua apreensão formal, o atravessamento da utopia formativa, revelando o ponto de impossibilidade de uma construção burguesa.This dissertation focuses on the historical formation of the work of João Guimarães Rosa. With the emphasis on his debut book, Sagarana, from 1946, this text works with the following hypothesis: beyond technical and literary experimentation, present throughout Rosas body of work, there is in Sagarana a commitment to a historical object, the sertão. This dissertation accompanies the characterization of the object, born from the social tensions of the Brazilian First Republic. By following this object in Rosas work, we assume his insertion in the post-1930s tradition, in which the autonomy of the object-sertão comes to the forefront of literary representation. We thus arrive at our second hypothesis: this autonomy and its importance to literature from 1930 to 1964 find an explanation in the very dynamics that propelled the country towards industrialization. The new needs that arose with the emerging process of industrialization highlight the fate of poor populations of the sertão, on which they depend without reservations. The third hypothesis presenting itself in this work is therefore that the serious commitment to the object-sertão offers a challenge to the formation theories brought about the same period: the rosian form, as much as the social theories concerned with the formation of the country, would have benefited themselves from the same momentum granted by the integrative efforts of the industry. But the object-sertão would pose as an other to these theories utopian projections, which impregnated these dynamics with the hope that the industrial processes would bring about an effective sense of citizenship to the country. This dissertation demonstrates how Rosas attention to this very specific object the revolutions on the sertãos social matter -, when formalized, bursts through the formative utopia, thus revealing the point of impossibility of a bourgeois construction in Brazil.
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Rowcroft, Andrew. "After post-Marxism : the recuperation and regeneration of Marxism in contemporary British and American fiction." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2018. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/32673/.
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This thesis constitutes the first sustained attempt to locate twenty-first-century Anglo-American fiction in relation to Marxist literary criticism, resulting in a solid set of original-reference material for those undertaking work on writers Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Miéville, Thomas Pynchon, and Kim Stanley Robinson, or more generally on the intersections between literature, Marxist critical theory, and philosophy. The project uncovers the topics, concerns, and forms of a collection of contemporary cross-genre narratives that I take to instantiate a new political designation occurring after post-Marxism. Moving from the collapse of "actually existing socialism" to the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the study identifies five authors who demonstrate a willingness to forge fresh dialogues with Marx, Marxism, and left radical politics. Envisioning how society is shaped by the interaction of subjects operating within the capital relation, the selected fictions of these authors set out to recuperate and regenerate the Marxist intellectual tradition through an unashamedly anti-capitalist approach to the post-millennial world. In focusing upon British and American narrative, the study will redress the current disparity within the Marxist critical tradition between the pervasiveness of critical political economy and the relative lack of scholarly attention to Marxist literary criticism, and the contemporary novel in particular. In addition, it argues the contemporary moment offers an opportunity for the development of a more critical and rigorous Marxist conceptual knowledge that exists beyond the boundaries of postmodern epistemology. The imperative to pursue Marxist readings of contemporary literature has been undertaken by a small group of critics in recent years, and this study will seek to make a significant contribution to this emerging field of scholarly endeavour.
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Inci, Metehan. "Alienation in 1980s American Society : A Marxist Perspective on Don DeLillo’s, White Noise." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-18736.
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Massuia, Rafael da Rocha. "Crítica literária, marxismo e interpretação do Brasil : um estudo a partir dos pensamentos de Roberto Schwarz e Carlos Nelson Coutinho /." Araraquara, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151142.
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Orientador: José Antonio SegattoBanca: Maria Célia de Moraes Leonel
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Banca: Claércio Ivan Schneider
Banca: Milton Lahuerta
Resumo: O presente trabalho realiza uma análise da atuação crítica literária, situada no campo do marxismo, de Roberto Schwarz e Carlos Nelson Coutinho. Os referidos autores tratam de importantes escritores brasileiros e, ao fazerem-no, elaboram concepções originais sobre o processo de formação e desenvolvimento da sociedade brasileira. Schwarz, analisando a obre de Machado de Assis, descobre o mecanismo privilegiado a partir do qual o escritor fluminense constrói sua obra madura, por meio do tratamento satírico do descompasso existente entre as elites brasileiras e sua incorporação contingencial do pensamento burguês europeu. Coutinho, estudando a obra de Lima Barreto e Graciliano Ramos, demonstra como esses escritores dialogam ativamente com seu contexto social, fornecendo ao leitor uma compreensão crítica e profunda da sociedade - marca de todo grande escritor. A fortuna crítica de Coutinho e Schwarz pressupõe um aprofundamento na realidade social brasileira - a partir de diferentes enfoques, num rico e contínuo debate com a teoria social marxista -, que objetivamos reconstruir os pontos centrais, destacando as possibilidades interpretativas que se abrem a partir de seus trabalhos para, por fim, pensarmos, para além de favoritismos teóricos, um necessário diálogo entre as duas teorias.
Abstract: The present work performs an analysis of the literary critic activity, grounded in the Marxist field, of Roberto Schwarz and Carlos Nelson Coutinho. These authors deal with important Brazilian writers and, in doing so, elaborate original conceptions about the formation and development process of the Brazilian society. Schwarz, analyzing the work of Machado de Assis, discovers the privileged mechanism from which the writer from Rio de Janeiro constructs his mature work, through the satirical treatment of the mismatch between the Brazilian elites and their contingent incorporation of the European bourgeois thought. Coutinho, studying the work of Lima Barreto and Graciliano Ramos, demonstrates how these writers actively dialogue with their social context, providing the reader with a critical and profound comprehension of the society - mark of every great writer. The critical fortune of Coutinho and Schwarz presupposes a deepening on the Brazilian social reality - from different approaches, in a rich and continuous debate with the Marxist social theory -, that we aimed to reconstruct the central points, highlighting the interpretative possibilities that present themselves from their work to think, finally, beyond any theoretical favoritism, a necessary dialogue between the two theories.
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Khmeleva, Elena A. "El tríptico tolstoyano de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1242252787.
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Pimlott, Herbert Frederick. "From the margins to the mainstream : study of the transformation of Marxism Today." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.344136.
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Saccone, Daria. "Arnold Hauser (1892-1978): biografía intelectual de un marxista romántico." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/384311.
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Este estudio es una biografía intelectual del historiador y teórico del
arte marxista Arnold Hauser. A la luz del recorrido biográfico y del
bagaje cultural del autor, se examina toda su obra y se discuten en
particular los temas más característicos de su teoría: la cuestión del
arte como superestructura ideológica, el arte como consuelo ante el
caos de la existencia y el arte como producto de la industria cultural.
Además se analiza un ensayo en particular –Manierismo– en tanto que
summa teórica del autor. A través de estas investigaciones se extraen
las características principales de un pensador complejo en cuya
identidad intelectual coexistían la tradición romántica alemana y la
teoría del arte marxista.This essay represents an intellectual biography of the Marxist historian and art theorist Arnold Hauser. Herein, I examine his entire body work in light of his life story as well as cultural background and discuss the most characteristic elements of his thought - namely, the subject of art as an ideological superstructure, as a consolation within the chaos of existence and as a product of the cultural industry. In addition, I conduct an in-depth analysis of his essay Manierismo, as his theoretical summa. Through these investigations, I highlight the main features of a complex thinker, whose intellectual identity combined the German romantic tradition and the Marxist theory of art.
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Mañana, Ramos Tamara. "Una mirada marxista a ”La autopista del sur” de Julio Cortázar." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Spanska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35903.
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Cordeiro, Luciana. "Pesquisa-ação na área da saúde: uma proposta marxista a partir de revisão de escopo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/7/7141/tde-19062017-174034/.
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Introdução: A pesquisa-ação (PA) é utilizada em diversos campos do conhecimento desde os anos 1940, constituindo atualmente uma família de abordagens. Identificou-sena literatura quatro princípios comuns: participação, processo realizado em ciclos de espiral, produção de conhecimento e transformação de práticas. Duas tradições de PA se manifestam historicamente: a do Norte, de cunho pragmático voltada para a resolução de problemas, e a do Sul, de cunho político com finalidade de transformação social. A área da saúde incorpora as duas tradições, produzindo pesquisas com diversos objetivos e finalidades. Neste trabalho inscrito no campo da Saúde Coletiva, parte-se da epistemologia crítica, e mais particularmente do marxismo, adotando-se os pressupostos teóricos que fundamentam a perspectiva de emancipação em Lukács; incorpora-se a educação emancipatória e ensinamentos de metodologias participativas de pesquisa. Objetivo:construir o arcabouço teórico metodológico da pesquisa-ação emancipatória.Procedimentos metodológicos:Trata-se de pesquisa de natureza metodológica cujas etapas foram: revisão de escopo para mapear as pesquisas em saúde,que utilizaram PA, classificando-se os resultados de acordo com categorias fundamentais da PA; discussão das categorias fundamentais da pesquisa-ação emancipatória (PAE), a partir da vertente marxista de produção do conhecimento e conceitualização da metodologia da PAE na saúde. Resultados: Foram incluídos 124 estudos na revisão de escopo. A América Latina foi o continente com maior número de publicações, seguida pela América do Norte, Europa e Austrália; Ásia e África apresentaram poucos estudos comparativamente. As PAs foram classificadas em três dimensões: organizacional, individual e coletiva. As produções da América Latina utilizam participação democrática e política e são mais influenciadas pela PA do Sul, produzindo pesquisas alocadas na dimensão coletiva, voltadas a necessidades de grupos particulares. As produções da América do Norte, fortemente influenciadas pela PA do Norte e embasadas na Promoção à Saúde, utilizam participação precária, almejando conquistar mudanças de comportamento dos participantes. Já as publicações Europeias e Australianas estão voltadas à dimensão organizacional, de forma a propor melhorias no ambiente de trabalho, utilizando diversidade de níveis de participação. As PAs da dimensão coletiva incluem grupos sociais no processo de produção de conhecimento, buscando favorecer práticas com implicação política,que incidam para além do âmbito individual/familiar. Analisou-se as categorias participação e emancipação a partir da vertente marxista, construindo-se a proposta de PAE que, ancorada da perspectiva da Saúde Coletiva, busca expor as raízes dos problemas de saúde, a partir da realidade concreta, produzindo crítica acerca da determinação social do processo saúde-doença e utilizando como instrumento a educação emancipatória. Considerações finais:As pesquisas alocadas nas dimensões organizacional e individual coadunam com os paradigmas pós-positivista e interpretativista e produzem conhecimento que aperfeiçoa o instituído. Já as pesquisas da dimensão coletiva ancoram-se no paradigma crítico e apresentam potencial para produzir conhecimentos que desafiam o status quo. A pesquisa-ação emancipatória, alicerçada na teoria marxista ena educação emancipatória, propõe a compreensão das raízes dos problemas de saúde e a realização de ações coletivas que tomem por referência o âmbito da determinação, favorecendo o exercer do potencial humano e de práticas políticas emancipatórias.Introduction: Action research (AR) is used in an array of knowledge fields since the 1940s, composing a family of approaches nowadays. We identified fours common principles: participation, process developed as spiral cycles, knowledge building, and practices transformation. Two traditions are historically posed: the Northern, which is more pragmatic and problem solution focused, and the Southern, which is more political and aims social tranformation. The health care field incorporates both traditions, producing researches with a variety of aims and ojectives. This dissertation is anchored in Collective Health and uses the critical epidemiology and the Marxism theory, adopting György Lukács theoretical framework of emancipation. We also incorporated emancipatory education and participatory research methodology propositions. Objective: to build a teoretical and methodological framework of emanciatory action research. Methodological Procedures: This is a methodological dissertation whose steps were: scoping review in order to map primary research in the health care field that used AR, and classification of the results according to the AR fundamental categories; discussion of the emancipatory action research (EAR) fundamental categories, considering the Marxist knowledge production, and conceptualization of EAR methodology in the health care field. Results: we included 124 primary studis in the scoping review. Latin America was the continent with higher number of publications, followed by North America, Europe and Australia; Asia and Africa had few studies comparatively. AR studies were classified in three dimensions: organizational, individual and collective. Latin Americas publications used a more democratic and political participation levels and; they are influenced by the Southern AR, producing researches located in the collective dimension, which are related to particular groups necessities. North Americas publications are highly influenced by the Northern AR and based on the Health Promotion; they used precarious participation levels, apiring participants behaviour change. Europe and Australias publications are located in the organizational dimension, proposing working environment changes and enhancement, using a diversity of participation levels. AR in the collective dimension includes social groups in the knowledge production process, consolidating political practices beyong individual/family context. We analysed participation and emancipation categories using the Marxism theory and we propose the EAR, which is anchored in the Collective Health perspective. It intends to expose the roots of the health problems through participants concrete reality, developing criticism about the social determination of the health-disease process, and using emancipatory education as an instrument. Final considerations: Publications located in the organizational and individual dimensions belong to the post positivist and interpetativist paradigms, producing knowledge that enhances the intituted ones. Collective dimension studies are anchored in the critical paradigm and have potential to produce knowledge that challenge the status quo. Emancipatory action research is based on Marxism and uses emancipatory education as an instrument. Therefore, it proposes the pursuit of the roots of the health problems, and of collective actions towards determination, enabing the human potential and the emancipatory political practices.
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Bellinson, Robin L. "Theory in Culture: Toward a Psychoanalytic Criticism of Advertising." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04042006-125208/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Calvin Thomas, committee chair; Nancy Chase, Christopher Kocela, committee members. Electronic text (122 p. : ill., photos) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-118).
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Bağlama, Sercan Hamza [Verfasser]. "The Resurrection of the «Spectre» : A Marxist Analysis of Race, Class and Alienation in the Post-war British Novel / Sercan Hamza Baglama." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1173655069/34.
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Morais, Tiago Martins de. "A lógica da caverna : um ensaio dialético sobre a pós-modernidade em Saramago." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/88425.
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O objeto artístico desta dissertação é o romance A caverna do escritor português José Saramago. Os caminhos teóricos que vão construir um método adequado para uma visão aprofundada desta narrativa são os do estudo das teorias que veem a literatura como uma junção de texto e contexto, que entendem os elementos sócio-históricos em uma relação de interpenetração com o texto literário, de forma que esses elementos externos transmutem-se em elementos internos à obra (ou seja, em elementos estéticos). A construção de um método dialético foca-se principalmente nos textos de teóricos como Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams e Fredric Jameson. Após o estudo das teorias dialéticas, objetiva-se proceder com a análise do romance de Saramago, sempre relacionando obra e contexto. Considerando que o contexto da obra em questão refere-se – como se defende neste trabalho – a um período pós-moderno de nossa história, a pesquisa, então, concentra-se no estudo do elemento social objetivando um entendimento da sociedade pós-moderna, para, logo após, de forma imanente, fazer uma leitura possível da obra saramaguiana centrada em dois elementos: o do mapeamento do pós-moderno e o da crítica à lógica do capitalismo. As pesquisas sobre o pós-modernismo centram-se essencialmente nas teses de David Harvey e de Fredric Jameson.The artistic object of this dissertation is the novel “The Cave” by José Saramago. The theoretical roads responsible for building a proper method to reach a deeper view of this narrative are related with theories that see literature in connection with its social context; theories that understand the social historical elements in relation with the literary object in a way in which these outside elements transmute into inner ones in the work (in other words, aesthetic elements). The building of a dialectical method focuses mainly on the works of Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson. After the study of these theories, this work intends to analyze Saramago’s novel, always looking into the relation between art and society. Taking into account that the novel’s context refers – as I propose in this work – to a post-modernist period of our history, my research, then, focuses on the study of the social element looking for an understanding of post-modern society, focused on two elements: the description of post-modernism and the criticism towards capitalistic logic. The researches about post-modernism are essentially based on the thesis of David Harvey and Fredric Jameson.
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Lacerda, Wagner. "Alegorias da resistência, dialética da desalienação: literatura, história e política na obra de José Saramago." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2009. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2769.
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FAPEMIG - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar diferentes abordagens políticas na obra do escritor português José Saramago, para observar como ele, intelectual de formação marxista, compreende e representa na ficção a dinâmica dos fatos históricos. O presente trabalho se insere no campo de debates da crítica política e procura refletir acerca de algumas questões que permeiam a construção de todo um projeto literário que se propõe a pensar sobre a sociedade e a questioná-la – entendemos por projeto literário um conjunto de obras que, conscientemente, é elaborado e estruturado em torno de formas e conteúdos semelhantes. Diante disso, pretende-se refletir sobre os entrelaçamentos que se estabelecem entre a literatura, a história e a política a partir de uma voz dissonante do cenário atual, em que o homem aparece cada vez mais diminuído perante o mercado e o capital. Para tal intento, são utilizados quatro romances escritos por Saramago: Levantado do Chão (1980), Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995), Todos os Nomes (1997) e A Caverna (2000); e, também, entrevistas concedidas pelo escritor e discursos proferidos por ele. O referencial teórico dessa pesquisa engloba textos de autores como Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault e Beatriz Sarlo.
Esta investigación tiene como objetivo identificar diferentes enfoques de política en la obra del escritor portugués José Saramago, para evaluar como él, un intelectual de formación marxista, comprende y representa en la ficción la dinámica de los hechos históricos. Este trabajo se inscribe en el ámbito de los debates de la crítica política y intenta reflexionar sobre algunas cuestiones relativas a la construcción de un proyecto literario que se propone a pensar sobre la sociedad y a cuestionarla – entendemos por proyecto literario un conjunto de obras que está elaborado conscientemente y se estructura en torno a las formas y contenidos similares. Así, nos proponemos a reflexionar sobre los intercambios que se producen entre la literatura, la historia y la política a partir de una voz disonante de la situación actual, en la que el hombre parece estar cada vez más reducido ante el mercado y el capital. Para tal intento, son utilizadas cuatro novelas escritas por Saramago: Levantado do Chão (1980), Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995), Todos os Nomes (1997) y A Caverna (2000); y, asimismo, entrevistas concedidas por el escritor y discursos emitidos por él. El marco teórico de esta investigación incluye textos de autores como Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault y Beatriz Sarlo.
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Svensson, Fredrik. "“Some third and other destiny” : The Unresolved Dialectic of Agency in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61765.
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Many critics have conceded that Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is an ambiguous novel; however, the very same critics have often argued also that the novel’s contradictions are eventually resolved. It will be argued in this essay that the multiplicity of McCarthy’s text primarily regards a problematic of agency—a question as to whether or not humanity is a force to be reckoned with in the world. It will also be argued that this question takes the form of a dialectic that the novel leaves unresolved, and that this, in its turn, is an important feature of the text—a feature originating from contemporary ideology, from late capitalism’s contradictory-ridden relation to the ”Real”. Blood Meridian portrays atrocities resulting from the 19th century Westward expansion of the United States unsparingly; the reader gets to witness a violent subsumption of the indigenous population, and is informed about a nascent extinction of the buffalo. The text also implicitly discusses the difficulties of representing violence and suffering aesthetically; however, Blood Meridian offers no final conclusion regarding whether or not humanity—and especially the Western World—is ultimately to blame for these phenomena. Via an unresolved dialectic of agency, then, McCarthy’s text renders history both alterable and reified, mankind both agent and powerless instrument. The following essay traces this feature to late capitalism’s exhaustion of the Earth’s resources and animal life, its Western-centric subjugation of other cultures, and its tendency to interpellate Western “man” as the centered subject of the Earth, while simultaneously liberating this subject from the responsibilities that come with such a position. It will eventually be proposed here that Blood Meridian’s contradictions is the result of a text that seeks redemption, both by an evasive attempt to write humanity back into harmony with nature, and by expressing a declaration of Western guilt.
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Stamm, Gina. "Communicating the Unknown: Construction of the Self in André Breton's Nadja." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209232762.
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