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10 best books like The Function of Criticism (Terry Eagleton): The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, The Permanent Revolution, Results and Prospects, Marxism and Literature, German Ideology, The Historical Novel, Theory of Prose, Homos, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader, Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, The Origin of German Tragic Drama

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN1406920452
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, first published in 1920, is Bertrand Russell's critique of the Communist system he witnessed in the Soviet Union.

Russell, a proponent of Communist ideals, believed that the future happiness of humanity depended upon restructuring the way production...
The Permanent Revolution, Results and Prospects
AuthorLeon Trotsky
ISBN8187879386
The theory of permanent revolution is one of the defining principles of Trotskyism. In the two major works presented in this book, "Results and Prospects" and "The Permanent Revolution," Trotsky showed that developing countries must achieve workers' rule in order to defeat tyranny and foreign domination....
Marxism and Literature
AuthorRaymond Williams
ISBN0198760612
This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyzes previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of cultural materialism'...
German Ideology
AuthorKarl Marx
ISBN0717803015
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
The Historical Novel
AuthorGyörgy Lukács
ISBN0850363780
Bastante difícil, mas também bastante iluminador. Os estudos sobre realismo europeu (Thomas Mann e outros) e as diversas considerações sobre Épica e Dramática na historiografia literária são sensacionais. O estudo que Lukács faz sobre o desenvolvimento e o "futuro" do romance histórico...
Theory of Prose
AuthorVictor Shklovsky
ISBN0916583643
Viktor Shklovsky's 1925 book Theory of Prose might have become the most important work of literary criticism in the twentieth century had not two obstacles barred its way: the crackdown by Soviet dictatorship on Shklovsky and other Russian Formalists in the 1930s, and the unavailability of an English...
Homos
AuthorLeo Bersani
ISBN0674406206
Acclaimed for his intricate, incisive, and often controversial explorations of art, literature, and society, Leo Bersani now addresses homosexuality in America.

Hardly a day goes by without the media focusing an often sympathetic beam on gay life--and, with AIDS, on gay death. Gay plays...
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader
AuthorDavid Lodge
ISBN0582312876
'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' (David Lodge)
This new edition of David Lodge's Modern Criticism and Theory is fully revised and expanded to...
Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
AuthorPaul De Man
ISBN0816611351
De Man is often merely lumped together with Derrida, Miller, and others aas representatives of "Deconstruction." There is a certain truth to this, but it is perhaps more useful to think of De Man in terms of a turn towards or return to rhetoric. Rhetoric is that material element of language consisting...
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
AuthorWalter Benjamin
ISBN1859844138
Walter Benjamin is widely acknowledged as amongst the greatest literary critics of this century, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama is his most sustained and original work. Indeed, Georg Lukacs—one of the most trenchant opponents of Benjamin’s aesthetics—singled out this work as one of...
Considerations on Western Marxism
AuthorPerry Anderson
ISBN0860917207
This influential Marxist text by the longtime editor of the radical New Left Review studies the development of 20th Century Marxist theory. Anderson defends the political and economic "Classical" tradition of Lenin and Trotsky against the aesthetic and cultural "Western" Marxist tradition of...
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
AuthorG.A. Cohen
ISBN0521471745
Defenders of capitalism claim that its inequality is the necessary price of the freedom that it guarantees. In that defense of capitalist inequality, freedom is self-ownership, the right of each person to do as he wishes with himself. The author shows that self-ownership fails to deliver the freedom...
Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
AuthorFredric Jameson
For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...
On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
AuthorJonathan Culler
ISBN0801492017
From reviews of the first edition-- "Academic literary crticism continues to be dominated by 'theory' and the struggle between deconstructionist and humanist approaches to the business of reading. Jonathan Culler's On Deconstruction is a typically patient, thoughtful, illuminating exposition...
Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy
AuthorFriedrich Engels
ISBN1417994673
A very concise and easy-to-read guide for understanding the theory of dialectical materialism. Hegel will no longer seem that intimidating.

I think it was Trotsky who observed that a good approach towards understanding a theory - even a complicated mathematical theory - is to analyze its...
Signs Taken for Wonders: On the Sociology of Literary Forms
AuthorFranco Moretti
ISBN1844670562
A compelling analysis of the relations between high and mass culture, from tragedy and horror to detective fiction and classical realism.

Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein and The Waste Land — all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature,...
Reading Capital
AuthorLouis Althusser
ISBN1859841643
Together with Louis Althusser’s book For Marx, Reading Capital represents one of the foundational texts of the school of “structuralist Marxism” which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory. Presided over by the magnetic and intellectually coruscating figure of Althusser,...
Why Read Marx Today?
AuthorJonathan Wolff
ISBN0192805053
The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously.
Jonathan Wolff argues that if we detach Marx the...
An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
AuthorErnest Mandel
ISBN0873483154
Ernest Mandel puts a finer point on many of the concepts Marx introduces in Capital, Volume One. He teases out the ramifications for a mid-20th century world of the Marxian theory of the declining rate of profit, collaboration of the state with capitalist industry (neo-capitalism), the role of the...
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism
AuthorEllen Meiksins Wood
ISBN0521476828
The paradoxical argument here is that the collapse of communism (in its actually existing form that is) has made marxism more important and more necessary than ever, mainly because it is one of the few if not the only mode of critical thought that can accommodate the idea of capitalism. Wood's argument...
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