The Politics of Style: Towards a Marxist Poetics

By Daniel Hartley

Book Overview

Building on the work of Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton and Fredric Jameson, Hartley delineates the historical and conceptual preconditions for the emergence of a 'politics of style', and uncovers an underground current of stylistics within the Marxist tradition from Marx to Barthes. Sets out an independent and ambitious theory of style as a foundational element of a new Marxist poetics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608468283
• ISBN13: 9781608468287
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"