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1 online resource |
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Dedication; Preface; Marxism and World Literature; Marxism and Canadian Literature; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: (Neo- )Marxist Approach, History, and Beginnings: Marxist Socialism and Canadian Social Realist Novels; Chapter 1: Introduction: Reality, Realism and (Neo- )Marxist Definitions and Paradigms; 1.1 Redefining "Realism" Before Réalisme: A Long Story Briefly Told from a Marxist Perspective; 1.1.1 Plato's Idealist Concept of Reality: The Parable of the Cave, the Analogy of the Mirror, and the Hierarchical Imitation of the Form |
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1.1.2 Aristotle's Materialist Reversal of Plato's Scheme: Nature, Things, Men and the Multiplicity of Possibilities1.2 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Definitions of Realism(e) and Limitations: Historical Movement, Recurrent Phenomena, Manners of Representation, Reality Out There and the Functions of Language; 1.3 Towards a Marxist Theory of Realism and Feminism; 1.3.1 Realism. Philosophical Theory: Materialist and Social Basis, the Concepts of Historical Change and Goals and Ideology |
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1.3.2 Realism, Literary Theory: The Concept of Typicality, Totality, Objectivity and the Principle of Contradiction1.3.3 Marxist-Feminist Parameters, the Family: Power Relations Therein, Private Property and Commodification, Monogamous Mode of Reproduction and Sexuality; Socialization and Politicization of Female Labour, the Triad of Values; 1.4 The Deficiency of English-Canadian Criticism on Social Realism and Socialism, the Revival of Marxist and Neo-Marxist Criticism and Methodology |
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Chapter 2: Reinterpreting History from a (Neo- )Marxist Perspective: Social, Intellectual and Literary Background2.1 New Realities: The Great Depression, Mass Production and Waste, Industrialization and Marxist Economic and Social Discourse; 2.2 Harsh Realities: The Spanish Civil War, Twentieth-Century Imperialism, Revolution and Marxist-Leninist Political and Historical Interpretations; 2.3 The Second World War, Global Capitalism, Colonialism, Imperialism and International Socialism and (Neo- )Marxist Sociopolitical and Ideological Theories |
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2.4 The Cold War, the Korean War, Mass Production, Urbanization, Anti-American Imperialism and (Neo- )Marxist Analysis2.5 Conclusion; Chapter 3: Early Beginnings of "Violent Duality": From Prairie Realism to Urban Social Realism in Durkin's The Magpie; 3.1 Politicizing the City and the Country with the Ideologies of Socialism and Capitalism, Entering the Proletariat as a Class and Localizing and Radicalizing Temporality and Spatiality; 3.2 Strategies of Characterization: Ideas and the Individual (Polarizing City Residents by Class and Ideology); 3.3 Women, the Family and Politics |
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This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo- )Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian socio-political novels influenced by various socialisms, socialist-feminist concerns, economic and sexual politics, and the genre of social realism. In so doing, it demonstrates that Marxist socialism is as relevant today as it was in the 1930s, just as social realist novels continue to thrive as a critique of capitalism. Readers wi |
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cultureel onderzoek |
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cultural research |
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politieke economie |
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political economy |
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geslacht (gender) |
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gender |
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sociale wetenschappen |
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social sciences |
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Social Sciences (General) |
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Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen) |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 11, 2015) |
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Social realism -- Bio-bibliography
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Canadian literature -- 20th century
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English literature -- 20th century.
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REFERENCE -- Bibliographies & Indexes.
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Canadian literature
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English literature
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Social realism
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bibliographies.
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Biographies
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Bibliographies
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Bio-bibliography
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Biographies.
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Bibliographies.
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Biographies.
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Bibliographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ji, Yuhua, author
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| ISBN |
9783662463505 |
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3662463504 |
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3662463490 |
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9783662463499 |
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