Marxism and literary criticism / Terry Eagleton ; with a new introduction by the author

Originally published: London : Methuen, 1976.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Literature and history :- Marx, Engels and criticism ; base and superstructure ; literature and superstructure ; literature and ideology -- 2. Form and content :- history and form ; form and ideology ; Lukacs and literary form ; Goldmann and genetic structuralism ; Pierre Macherey and 'decentred' form -- 3. The writer and commitment :- art and the proletariat ; Lenin, Trotsky and commitment ; Marx, Engels and commitment ; the reflectionist theory ; literary commitment and English Marxism -- The author as producer :- Art as production ; Walter Benjamin ; Bertolt Brecht and 'epic' theatre ; form and production ; realism or modernism? ; consciousness and production -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index