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Two Main Routes Of The Construction Of Western Marxist Literary Theory, Xianguang Feng
Two Main Routes Of The Construction Of Western Marxist Literary Theory, Xianguang Feng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper starts with the observation that unique thoughts and routes distinguish various kinds of Marxism literary theories when they were constructed. The constructive differences lie in both the so-called "orthodox" and the later Western Marxist literary theories, and different developing routes and modes were developed especially in the later during its early and later periods. After an analysis of the periodization and the different features of Western Marxist literary theory, the paper concludes with the significance of the analysis to the construction of a Chinese Marxist literary theory.
The Cultural Theme In Terry Eagleton's Critical Theory, Hailiang Mai
The Cultural Theme In Terry Eagleton's Critical Theory, Hailiang Mai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This essay explores the content and exceptionality of Terry Eagleton's idea of culture and its significance for contemporary thinking on culture, and it posits the exploration in the context of current academic heat on culture, the intellectual history of English cultural theory and the tradition of Western Marxism. The paper maintains that Eagleton's proposition of cultural crisis not only reveals the intrinsic contradiction of the cultural heat but also helps for the understanding of the fundamental logic of modern cultural theory. Cultural crisis has been in existence along the modern era and it has intensified into contemporary culture wars. It …
Gender As Cultural Production: The Cultural Critique In Contemporary Western Marxist Feminism, Rui Ma
Gender As Cultural Production: The Cultural Critique In Contemporary Western Marxist Feminism, Rui Ma
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The uncovering of the sociality of gender and the reshaping of the consciousness of women are fundamental cultural appeals of feminism, and these appeals may rely on theoretical support from both classical Marxist dialectical analysis of the relationship between society and consciousness and Western Marxist illuminations of the subjectivity and cultural materialism, although the latter may take on more weight for feminist criticism. Since 1970s, Marxist feminism has absorbed the theory of cultural production, developed on Althusser's theory of ideology and British cultural studies, in its analysis of patriarchy, capitalism and gender system, and gender is thus disclosed as the …
The Transformation From Being To Dasein: Agnes Heller's Neo-Marxist Aesthetics As A Breakthrough On Lukács' Theoretical Framework, Qilin Fu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Agnes Heller's neo-Marxist aesthetics is based on the individual construction of Dasein and the human condition of contingency, and it can be argued as a breakthrough of Lukács' aesthetics of Being. By way of humanist aesthetics, she accomplishes the transformation from the philosophy of consciousness into the selective construction of everyday life. This transformation is doubtlessly a great contribution to postmodernist Marxist aesthetics, and is valuable for both theory and practicum in the era of contemporary socialism and late capitalism or postmodern human condition.