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The Politics of Style

Name: The Politics of Style
ISBN: 9781608468287

Towards a Marxist Poetics

Daniel Hartley

Haymarket Books · 2018-01-05

The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics

LITERARY CRITICISM historical literary

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Themes: Historical, Literary.
Reading lane: Subjects & Themes and Modern.
Publisher: Haymarket Books.

About This Book

Building on the work of Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson, Hartley 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. Sets out an independent and ambitious theory of style as a foundational element of a new Marxist poetics.