Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. A vital resource for students of Shakespeare which includes Marx's own readings of Shakespeare, Derrida on Marx, and also Bourdieu, Bataillle, Negri and Alice Clark.
Today We Are In A Position To Return To Althusser S Work In A New Way, And Make A New Assessment Of It, Writes Frederic Jameson In His Introduction To This New Edition Of Louis Althusser S Lenin And Philosophy. No Figure Loomed Larger Than Althusser In Marxist Thought In The West During The 1960S And 70S The Decades In Which The Soviet Model Was Discredited In The West And New Avenues Opened Up In Marxist Philosophy And Politics. Althusser Stood Out For His Attempt To Define A Marxist Philosophy That Was Rigorous, Scientific, And Revolutionary.
Major changes have shaken Marxism over recent decades. This collection of essays, by two American authors of international repute, documents what has become the most original formulation of Marxist theory today. Resnick and Wolff ’s work is shaping Marxism’s new directions and new departures as it repositions itself for the twenty first century. Their new non-determinist and class-focused Marxist
"Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader" is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading Marxism, literature, theory, and the social possibilities of writing.
