This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. Presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. Offers an innovative way into understanding modern critical thought. Spans the period from Marx to the present day. A conversation of ideas emerges between one generation and the next. Editorial material defines key terms and maps out contested terrain. Each piece is prefaced by contextualising notes and suggestions for further reading.

Product Description: This book of lyrics and texts challenges the way numbers prevail over words in art and experience. Providing a radically new poetry of the book and an exhilarating manifesto against maths in art, philosophy and society, Go Figure offers a critique of mathematical reason and a comedy of speculative wit...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Drew Milne is something of a one-man culture industry. He has published ten books of poetry, and as much of criticism and critical anthologies. He is the editor of Parataxis Editions and its house journal, and is the co-author (with Terry Eagleton) of Blackwell's 1996 Marxist Literary Theory...read more

Product Description: Milne's striking and vigorous poems show the push-pull of modernism versus history. (Poetry)

This text is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a marxist literary tradition. A compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading marxism, literature, theory and the social possibilities of writing. The collection is introduced by both editors: Terry Eagleton, writing at the point of what he describes as "the most grievous crisis in marxism's fraught career", surveys the evolution of Marxist criticism, and addresses the profoundly problematic question of Marxism's future, especially as seen in the controversial light of postmodern theory; Drew Milne contributes a key essay on "Reading Marxist Literary Theory", exploring in the process the complex relations between Marx's writings and marxism. Represented in this reader are: Theodor W. Adorno, Louis Althusser, Aijaz Ahmad, Chida Amuta, Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Ernest Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alex Callinicos, Christopher Caudwell, Terry Eagleton, Friedrich Engels, Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, V.I. Lenin, Georg Lukacs, Karl Marx, The Marxist-Feminist Collective, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Leon Trotsky, V.N. Volsinov, Galvano Della Volpe, Alick West and Raymond Williams.