Literature and society
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
Andrew Milner
8 points * 2 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton * Prohibitions: COS3080
The subject addresses the central features of sociocultural modernisation, and seeks to identify their impress within the modern literary process. It will provide a theoretically informed approach to the study of the capitalist mode of literary and cultural production; the sociology of the modern intelligentsia; the relationship between sociology and aesthetics, and between art and politics; and to the sociology of distinctively modern and postmodern literary forms such as the novel.
Assessment
Written (6000 words): 100%
Prescribed texts
Eagleton T Literary theory: An introduction Blackwell
Williams R Culture Fontana
Williams R The long revolution Hogarth
Wolff J The social production of art Macmillan
Recommended texts
Adam I and Tiffin H (eds) Past the last post: Theorizing post-colonialism and post-modernism Harvester
Adorno T and Horkheimer M Dialectic of enlightenment Verso
Anderson B Imagined communities Verso
Ashcroft B and others The empire writes back Routledge
Barthes R Image-music-text Fontana
Bauman Z Intimations of postmodernity Routledge
Benjamin W Illuminations Fontana
Bennett T Outside literature Routledge
Bourdieu P Distinction RKP
Bürger P Theory of the avant-garde Manchester UP
Eagleton T The function of criticism Verso
Febvre L and Martin H-J The coming of the book New Left Books
Foucault M Language, counter-memory, practice Blackwell
Goldmann L The hidden god RKP
Jameson F Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism Verso
Jauss H R Toward an aesthetic of reception Harvester
Kristeva J Revolution in poetic language Columbia UP
Lovell T Consuming fiction Verso
Lyotard J-F The postmodern condition Manchester UP
Moretti F Signs taken for wonders Verso
Showalter E (ed.) The new feminist criticism Pantheon
Watt I The rise of the novel Penguin