The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics (Historical Materialism)

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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. ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgements ‎Introduction ‎Part 1. Marxist Poetics in Context ‎Chapter 1. Why Marxism and Style? ‎1. The Concept of Style ‎2. Epochal Political Conjuncture: Western Marxism and Beyond ‎3. Intellectual Context: the British Anomaly ‎4. Internal Debates: Types of Marxist Criticism ‎Chapter 2. From State Censorship to the Poetry of the Future: Style in the Marxist Tradition ‎1. An Overview of Marx’s Early Writings ‎2. Style in Aristotle’s Rhetoric ‎3. The Young Marx on Style and Censorship ‎4. Marx After Buffon and Fichte ‎5. Style and the Philosophy of History ‎6. The End of Style? ‎Chapter 3. Mimesis from Plato to Ricoeur ‎1. Mimesis in Plato and Aristotle ‎2. On the Threefold Mimesis ‎3. Historicising the Threefold Mimesis ‎3.1. Mimesis1: Prefiguration ‎3.2. Mimesis2: Configuration ‎3.3. Mimesis3: Refiguration ‎Conclusion ‎Part 2. Theories of Style in Williams, Eagleton and Jameson ‎Overture: Patricide; or, Reformism Versus Revolution ‎Eagleton Contra Williams ‎Williams Strikes Back ‎Chapter 4. Style in Prose Fiction: A Preliminary Definition ‎1. Style as a Social Relationship ‎1.1. Abstract Universal Style versus Particular Style ‎1.2. Prose Settled and Unsettled ‎1.3. Williams’s Theory of Prose: A Balance-Sheet ‎2. Narratology, Voice and Style ‎3. A First Definition of Style in Prose Fiction ‎4. Possible Elaborations ‎Chapter 5. Raymond Williams: Style between Immanence and Naturalism ‎1. On Williams and Immanence ‎1.1. Keywords ‎1.2. Language as ‘Practical Consciousness’ ‎1.3. Forms, Techniques and Technology ‎1.4. Sociological Perspectivism ‎2. Williams’s Multiple Approaches to the Problem of Style ‎2.1. Language in Naturalist Drama; or, the Relation of ‘Structure of Feeling’ and Style ‎2.2. Historical Temporality and Stylistic Inheritance: Against the Ideology of Modernism ‎2.3. Stylistic Integration ‎2.4. Transindividual Subjectivity: Style and ‘Total Expression’ ‎2.5. Style and Cultural Materialism ‎Conclusion ‎Intermezzo: Style and the Meaning of ‘Politics’ and ‘Culture’ ‎Eagleton Contra Jameson ‎Jameson’s Reply ‎Chapter 6. Terry Eagleton: The Political Theology of Style ‎1. The Body as Language ‎2. Leavis 2.0? ‎3. The Close Reading of Styles ‎4. The Problems of Stylistic Ideals ‎5. Tragic Styles ‎Chapter 7. Fredric Jameson: Epic Poet of Postmodernity ‎1. Narrative and Praxis ‎2. Jameson as Epic Poet of Postmodernity ‎3. Jameson, the Epic Contemplator? ‎4. Style and Modernity ‎4.1. Rhetoric versus Style ‎4.2. The Extinction of the Narrative Categories of Experience ‎4.3. Narrative versus Style ‎4.4. The Utopian Vocation of Style ‎5. Postmodernity and the End of Style ‎6. Jameson’s Theory of Style: A Balance-Sheet ‎Coda: New Styles for New Social Relations ‎Part 3. Style in Marxist Poetics ‎Chapter 8. A General Marxist Theory of Style ‎1. Mimesis1 ‎1.1. Linguistic Situation ‎1.2. Linguistic Ideology ‎1.3. Experience ‎2. Mimesis2 ‎2.1. Poetic Shaping ‎2.2. Stylistic Ideology ‎2.3. Directionality ‎2.4. Modes, Types, Genres, Forms ‎2.5. Lyric ‎2.6. Drama ‎2.7. The Pain and Joy of Writing ‎3. Mimesis3 ‎3.1. Literal Phase: Micro-Structures of Feeling ‎3.2. Identification Phase: Instance, Idiom, Interpellation ‎3.3. Formal Phase: From Form to Formation ‎3.4. Generic Phase: Projects and Modes ‎3.5. Utopian Phase ‎4. Poiēsis and Praxis ‎Conclusion ‎Bibliography ‎Name Index ‎Subject Index