Marxism and 20th-Century English-Canadian Novels A New Approach to Social Realism

Marxism and 20th-Century English-Canadian Novels A New Approach to Social Realism / by John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji.

This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian socio-political novels influenced...

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Main Authors: Chen, John Z. Ming (Author), Ji, Yuhua (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Cultural studies.
Political economy.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART ONE (Neo-)Marxist Approach, History, and Beginnings: Marxist Socialism and Canadian Social Realist Novels.- Chapter 1 Introduction: Reality, Realism and (Neo-)Marxist Definitions and Paradigms.- Chapter 2 Reinterpreting History from a (Neo-)Marxist Perspective: Social, Intellectual, and Literary Background
  • Chapter 3 Early Beginnings of “Violent Duality”: From Prairie Realism to Urban Social Realism in Durkin's The Magpie
  •    PART TWO Theory, Urban Alienation, Sex, Politics: Socialism and Canadian Social Realist Novel.- Chapter 1 Theorizing English-Canadian Social Realism
  • Chapter 2 Metropolis in Contrast with Cabbagetown: Callaghan's They Shall Inherit the Earth and Garner's Cabbagetown
  • PART THREE Industrialization, Class Struggle, and Decolonization
  •   Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 From Vision and Ideal to Strategy and Reality
  •   Chapter 3 Class, Capital, and the Case of CanLit Par Excellence
  • Conclusion
  • (Neo-)Marxist Glossary      .

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