Ideology and literature

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ID5772376
AuthorsMichael Moriarty (0000-0002-3604-1627, Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume11
Issue1
Pages43-60
Publication date2005-12-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569310500395875
OpenAlexW2035692730
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The use of the term 'ideology' in relation to literature was for long typical of Marxist criticism, especially of the Althusserian school. Althusser's first and second theories of ideology exerted a powerful impact on literary criticism and theory (Macherey, Eagleton, Jameson). The work of Bourdieu, Bakhtin, and Žižek offers alternative conceptions of ideology. The concept has been influentially criticized by Foucault, but it has still been used in recent work by non-Marxist critics, especially in examining forms of domination apart from those of class (sexual, racial, colonial). In conclusion it is suggested that the concept retains some value in the analysis of certain kinds of text, although it carries with it the risk of reductionism; but that it difficult to apply to 'literature' in general-a category itself problematic and somewhat marginal to contemporary cultural discourse

Class (philosophy) · Criticism · Epistemology · Ideology · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Reductionism · Relation (database) · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci

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