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Marxism: Introduction

 
(structure--for structuralist, it is signifying structure, timeless, self-regulating; for Marxist, it is social system, historical, changeable, and fraught with contradictions.)
Starting questions: 
  • How does economy (or money) determine our life, our thought and literary creation?
  • Who should benefit from the increase of labor power made possible by industrial revolution?  Is capitalism an unfair system?  Should it  be gotten rid of?  What are the alternatives?
  • If the school a work place, who are the laborers and who, the capitalist to gain the profits?  How about the students? 
Teaching plan:
Day 1-- materialist determinism (modes of production, literary modes of production, relations of production);  readings: textbook Chap 9-- e.g. Bicycle Thief , "The Rocking-Horse Winner"; "Canadian Experience"; "Lesson"; "My Last Duchess"; 〈兒子的大玩偶

Day 2--state formations, ideology and ideological state apparatus; handout (pp. 70-72; 86-90; 91-99)--  e.g. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Day 3--Eagleton's views of ideology; Jameson's three-horizon criticism

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