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Karl Marx and World Literature
S S Prawer
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"Very few men," said Bakunin, "have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx." S. S. Prawer's highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature-poems, novels, plays-infused and shaped Marx's writings, from his unpublished correspondence, to his pamphlets and major works. In exploring Marx's use of literary texts, from Aeschylus to Balzac, and the central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision, Karl Marx and World Literature is a forensic masterpiece of critical analysis.
"Very few men," said Bakunin, "have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx." S. S. Prawer's highly influential work explores how the world of imaginative literature-poems, novels, plays-infused and shaped Marx's writings, from his unpublished correspondence, to his pamphlets and major works. In exploring Marx's use of literary texts, from Aeschylus to Balzac, and the central role of art and literature in the development of his critical vision, Karl Marx and World Literature is a forensic masterpiece of critical analysis.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
460
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844677108
SKU
V9781844677108
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About S S Prawer
S. S. Prawer (1925-2012) was Taylor Emeritus Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. His many books include Caligari's Children, A Cultural Citizen of the World: Sigmund Freud's Knowledge and Use of British and American Writing, and Karl Marx and World Literature.
Reviews for Karl Marx and World Literature
Prawer's book is a milestone: the first important, very well informed and open, non-marxist study in dept of Marx on literature.
Lee Baxandall, author of Marxism and Aesthetics: A Selective Annotated Bibliography Here is a major book on Marx, the imagination of history, and nineteenth-century literary taste, executed with standards of scholarship as rare among Marx's adherents as among ... Read more
Lee Baxandall, author of Marxism and Aesthetics: A Selective Annotated Bibliography Here is a major book on Marx, the imagination of history, and nineteenth-century literary taste, executed with standards of scholarship as rare among Marx's adherents as among ... Read more