Fredric Jameson, professor of romance studies, Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute for Critical Theory, is remembered for his ...

Open Marxism 2: Theory and Practice was released with volume 1 in 1992. The introduction to volume 2 is included below along with the full PDF. For a fuller overview of Open Marxism, see the ...

Writer-journalist B.R. Manjunath has said as the Marxist method of literary criticism is based on the outlook of class struggle, it consequently adopts a historical approach while analysing literature ...

Terry Eagleton has been a literary luminary in the U.K. and the U.S. since the mid-1960s, best known for his influential work in Marxist literary and cultural theory and criticism, but also as a ...

Literary theory has a reputation for being difficult, unfairly or not. Whatever the case, everyone approaches literature (or any sort of cultural production — film, painting, sculpture, website, ...

It has held sway in the humanities for nearly four decades, surviving even the great culture wars. But it is being used in surprising ways. Either literary theory is dead, or it’s invincible. It all ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite East European countries and the establishment of state capitalism in China and Vietnam in the name of socialism, it has been widely assumed that ...