MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

CLS2370

Literature and society

Proposed to be offered next in 1997

Andrew Milner

Synopsis 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 U P
• 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 U P
• Lovell T Consuming fiction Verso
• Lyotard J-F The postmodern condition Manchester U P
• Moretti F Signs taken for wonders Verso
• Showalter E (ed.)The new feminist criticism Pantheon
• Watt I The rise of the novel Penguin