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Culture as politics : selected writings of Christopher Caudwell
\"Selected essays by Christopher Caudwell, on culture, psychology, and capitalism. Material drawn from Caudwell's previous book, \"Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture\" and his essay, \"Heredity and Development.\"\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fredric Jameson and film theory : Marxism, allegory, and geopolitics in world cinema
Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson's remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts-such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche-and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in both cases, how these can be applied, revised, expanded and challenged within film studies. Featuring essays by leading and emerging voices in the field, the volume probes the contours and complexities of neoliberal capitalism across the globe and explores world cinema's situation within these forces by deploying and adapting Jamesonian concepts, and placing them in dialogue with other theoretical paradigms. The result is an innovative and rigorously analytical effort that offers a range of Marxist-inspired approaches towards cinemas from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America in the spirit of Jameson's famous rallying cry: 'always historicize!'.
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Calibrations
Ato Quayson uses a method of reading he calls calibrations: a reading of literature with what lies beyond it as a way of understanding structures of transformation, process, and contradiction that inform both literature and society. He surveys texts ranging from Bob Marley lyrics, Toni Morrison’s work, Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History, and Althusser’s reflections on political economy.
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The dialectic of position and maneuver : understanding Gramsci's military metaphor
\"In The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver, Daniel Egan examines the role that the military metaphors of war of position and war of maneuver play in Antonio Gramsci's social theory. The foundation for this analysis is the different ways in which Marxists have understood war and military strategy since the mid-nineteenth century. In doing so, Egan argues that the distinction between war of position and war of maneuver which is so central to Gramsci's work as well as contemporary interpretations of his work must be understood in a more dialectical manner. This conclusion is important not only in terms of Gramsci's social theory, but also for understanding the limits and possibilities of contemporary political strategies for the left worldwide.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Gramsci's laboratory : philosophy, history and politics
The purpose of Gramsci's Laboratory is to interpret the relationship between philosophy and politics in Gramsci's Quaderni del carcere. A milestone in contemporary Brazilian Gramsci reception, the book argues that in Gramsci's work the unity of theory and practice is unfolded theoretically through the unity of philosophy, history and politics. Bianchi argues that this unity was developed in the research project that Gramsci carried out in prison, and was thus a product of the 'determination in the last instance' of politics itself. His book demonstrates that a correct understanding of this unity requires us to recognise that history and philosophy are constitutive elements of the political field from which they claim to keep their distance. This book was first published in Portuguese in 2008 as O Laboratório de Gramsci: Filosofia, História e Política by Alameda, ISBN 9788598325798.
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Painting imperialism and nationalism red : the Ukrainian Marxist critique of Russian communist rule in Ukraine, 1918-1925
\"In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who regarded Russian rule over their country as colonialism. He then discusses the rise of \"national communism\" in Russia and Ukraine and the Ukrainian Marxist critique of Russian imperialism and colonialism. The first extended analysis of Russian communist rule in Ukraine to focus on the Ukrainian communists, their attempted anti-Bolshevik uprising in 1919, and their exclusion from the Comintern, Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red re-opens a long forgotten chapter of the early years of the Soviet Union and the relationship between nationalism and communism. An appendix provides a valuable selection of Ukrainian Marxist texts, all translated into English for the first time.\"-- From publisher's website.
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Literature and Literary Criticism in Contemporary China
iEach age has a value system of literary criticism whose construction is inseparable from the mainstream ideology of the society. In contemporary China, it is inevitably Marxism.
This book is composed of two parts. The first part studies literary criticism in contemporary China where its development is closely related to the popularization and unavoidable collisions between Marxism and other theories. It also introduces some relevant critical debates, such as the debate on the criticism of Yu Pingbo, a representative and one of the authoritative scholars studying The Dream of the Red Chamber.
In the second part, the author illustrates the history of Chinese literature from a macro-level perspective, involving works, genres, ideologies, and schools, among other things. He also discusses the challenges Chinese literature faces under the background of economic globalization. Will politics and cultures, including literature and arts, be globalized? In addition, the author puts forward that a dynamic concept is needed for a better understanding of Chinese culture and suggests some “adjustments” that Chinese people should make for the present. This book will attract scholars and students of literary criticism and Chinese literary studies. People who are interested in Chinese literature and thought will also benefit from this book.
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The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci's interpretation of Marxism as a comprehensive conception of the world is the essential theme of this book. The discussion is aimed at illuminating the various ways in which Gramsci applied Marxist thought to political, cultural, and social issues.
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