Title The politics of style : towards a Marxist poetics / by Daniel Hartley

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Historical Materialism Book Ser. ; v. 132 Historical Materialism Book Ser Contents ‎Contents; ‎Acknowledgements; ‎Introduction; ‎Part 1. Marxist Poetics in Context; ‎Chapter 1. Why Marxism and Style?; ‎1. The Concept of Style; ‎2. Epochal Political Conjuncture: Western Marxism and Beyond; ‎3. Intellectual Context: the British Anomaly; ‎4. Internal Debates: Types of Marxist Criticism; ‎Chapter 2. From State Censorship to the Poetry of the Future: Style in the Marxist Tradition; ‎1. An Overview of Marx's Early Writings; ‎2. Style in Aristotle's Rhetoric; ‎3. The Young Marx on Style and Censorship; ‎4. Marx After Buffon and Fichte; ‎5. Style and the Philosophy of History ‎6. The End of Style?‎Chapter 3. Mimesis from Plato to Ricoeur; ‎1. Mimesis in Plato and Aristotle; ‎2. On the Threefold Mimesis; ‎3. Historicising the Threefold Mimesis; ‎3.1. Mimesis1: Prefiguration; ‎3.2. Mimesis2: Configuration; ‎3.3. Mimesis3: Refiguration; ‎Conclusion; ‎Part 2. Theories of Style in Williams, Eagleton and Jameson; ‎Overture: Patricide; or, Reformism Versus Revolution; ‎Eagleton Contra Williams; ‎Williams Strikes Back; ‎Chapter 4. Style in Prose Fiction: A Preliminary Definition; ‎1. Style as a Social Relationship; ‎1.1. Abstract Universal Style versus Particular Style ‎1.2. Prose Settled and Unsettled‎1.3. Williams's Theory of Prose: A Balance-Sheet; ‎2. Narratology, Voice and Style; ‎3. A First Definition of Style in Prose Fiction; ‎4. Possible Elaborations; ‎Chapter 5. Raymond Williams: Style between Immanence and Naturalism; ‎1. On Williams and Immanence; ‎1.1. Keywords; ‎1.2. Language as 'Practical Consciousness'; ‎1.3. Forms, Techniques and Technology; ‎1.4. Sociological Perspectivism; ‎2. Williams's Multiple Approaches to the Problem of Style; ‎2.1. Language in Naturalist Drama; or, the Relation of 'Structure of Feeling' and Style ‎2.2. Historical Temporality and Stylistic Inheritance: Against the Ideology of Modernism‎2.3. Stylistic Integration; ‎2.4. Transindividual Subjectivity: Style and 'Total Expression'; ‎2.5. Style and Cultural Materialism; ‎Conclusion; ‎Intermezzo: Style and the Meaning of 'Politics' and 'Culture'; ‎Eagleton Contra Jameson; ‎Jameson's Reply; ‎Chapter 6. Terry Eagleton: The Political Theology of Style; ‎1. The Body as Language; ‎2. Leavis 2.0?; ‎3. The Close Reading of Styles; ‎4. The Problems of Stylistic Ideals; ‎5. Tragic Styles; ‎Chapter 7. Fredric Jameson: Epic Poet of Postmodernity ‎1. Narrative and Praxis‎2. Jameson as Epic Poet of Postmodernity; ‎3. Jameson, the Epic Contemplator?; ‎4. Style and Modernity; ‎4.1. Rhetoric versus Style; ‎4.2. The Extinction of the Narrative Categories of Experience; ‎4.3. Narrative versus Style; ‎4.4. The Utopian Vocation of Style; ‎5. Postmodernity and the End of Style; ‎6. Jameson's Theory of Style: A Balance-Sheet; ‎Coda: New Styles for New Social Relations; ‎Part 3. Style in Marxist Poetics; ‎Chapter 8. A General Marxist Theory of Style; ‎1. Mimesis1; ‎1.1. Linguistic Situation; ‎1.2. Linguistic Ideology; ‎1.3. Experience Summary This book develops a Marxist theory of literary style. The first part explains why Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson came to see style as central to political criticism. It delineates the historical and conceptual preconditions for the emergence of a 'politics of style', and uncovers an underground current of stylistics within the Marxist tradition from Marx to Barthes. The second part sets out precisely what each thinker has written on style and demonstrates how this came to figure in their overall intellectual and political projects, focusing above all on a detailed reconstruction of Williams's best-known concept, the 'structure of feeling'. Finally, the third part sets out an independent theory of style and makes an ambitious attempt to establish it as a foundational element of a new Marxist poetics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Williams, Raymond Eagleton, Terry, 1943- Jameson, Fredric SUBJECT Eagleton, Terry, 1943- fast Jameson, Fredric fast Williams, Raymond fast Subject Socialism and literature. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. Socialism and literature Form Electronic book LC no. 2016043078 ISBN 9789004287624 9004287620

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