Block 3
General
Alongside the general introductory guides listed in the secondary bibliography for Semester 1, you may find the following useful:
Eagleton, Terry, Criticism and Ideology new edition (London: Verso, 2006)
------- Marxism and Literary Theory new edition (London: Routledge, 2002)
Eagleton, Terry and Drew Milne (eds.), Marxist Literary Theory: a reader (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1996)
Goldstein, Philip, Politics of Literary Theory (Tallahassee: Florida State UP, 1990)
Lunn, Eugene, Marxism and Modernism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982)
Williams, Raymond, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: OUP, 1977)
You may also wish to look at key texts on literature and culture by other writers in the Marxist tradition such as:
Goldmann, Lucien, Pour une sociologie du roman (Paris: Gallimard Tel, 1986)
----- Towards a Sociology of the Novel , trans. by Alan Sheridan (London: Tavistock, 1977)
Antonio Gramsci, Selections from Cultural Writings , ed. by David Forgacs and Geoffrey
Nowell-Smith, trans. by William Boelhower (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1985)
Sartre, Jean-Paul, Qu’est-ce que la littérature?
(Paris: Gallimard, 1948)
----- What is Literature?
trans. by Bernard Frechtman (London: Methuen, 1978)
Trotsky, Leon, Literature and Revolution, trans. by Rose Strunsky (London: Alan and Unwin,
1925)
On Benjamin
Benjamin, Andrew and Peter Osborne (eds.), Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy: destruction and experience (Manchester: Clinamen, 2000)
Buck-Morss, Susan, The Dialectics of Seeing (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989) (a particularly valuable account of the Passagenwerk )
----- The Origin of Negative Dialectics (Hassocks: Harvester, 1978)
Cohen, Margaret, Profane Illumination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)
Eagleton, Terry, Walter Benjamin (London: NLB, 1981)
Ferris, David, (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)
Gilloch, Graeme, Walter Benjamin: Critical constellations (Cambridge: Polity, 2002)
Hanssen, Beatrice (ed.) Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (London: Continuum, 2004)
Lane, Richard J, Reading Walter Benjamin (Manchester: MUP, 1985)
Smith, Gary, (ed) On Walter Benjamin (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988)
Wolin, Richard, Walter Benjamin: an aesthetic of redemption new edition (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994)
On Adorno
Buck-Morss, Susan, The Origin of Negative Dialectics (Hassocks: Harvester, 1978)
Gibson, Nigel and Andrew Rubin (eds.) Adorno, a critical reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)
Hammer, Espen, Adorno and the Political (London: Routledge, 2006)
Huhn, Thomas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Adorno (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)

Jameson, Fredric, Late Marxism: Adorno, or the persistence of the dialectic (London: Verso,
1990)
Jarvis, Simon, Adorno, a critical introduction (Oxford: Polity, 1998)
Jay, Martin, Adorno (London: Fontana, 1984)
Paddison, Max, Adorno, Modernism and Mass Culture (London: Kahn & Averill, 2004)
Rose, Gillian, The Melancholy Science (London: Macmillan, 1978)
Zuidervaart, Lambert, Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991)
On Althusser
Albiac, G. et al. Lire Althusser aujourd’hui (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1997)
Benton, Ted, The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism (London: Macmillan, 1984)
Callinicos, Alex, Althusser’s Marxism (London: Pluto, 1976)
Dowling, William, Jameson, Althusser, Marx (London: Methuen, 1984)
Elliott, G. J., Louis Althusser and the Politics of Theory (Oxford: OUP, 1984)
Elliott, Gregory, Althusser, a critical reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994)
----- Althusser: the detour of theory 2nd ed. (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006)
Kouvelakis, Eustache and Vincent Charbonnier, (eds.) Sartre, Lukacs, Althusser: des
Marxistes en philosophie (Paris: PUF, 2005)
Lewis, William S., Louis Althusser and the traditions of French Marxism (Oxford,Lexington,
2005)
Montag, Warren, Louis Althusser (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Poster, Mark, Existential Marxism in Postwar France (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975) (this concentrates on Sartre, but gives a very useful sense of the context of Althusser’s work)
Rademacher, Lee, Structuralism vs. humanism in the formation of the political self: the philosophy of politics of Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser (Lewiston: E.Mellen
Press, 2002)
Smith, Steven B., Reading Althusser: an essay on structural Marxism (Ithaca: Cornell UP,
1984)
On Jameson
Helmling, Steven, The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000)
Homer, Sean, Fredric Jameson: Marxism, hermeneutics, postmodernism (Cambridge: Polity,
1998)
Homer, Sean and Douglas Kellner (eds.) Jameson: a critical reader (Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2004)
Roberts, Adam, Fredric Jameson (London: Routledge, 2000)
Block 4
You will find pertinent material among the secondary material suggested in previous blocks, for example in the introductory texts, in introductory collections of essays, and in relation to e.g. representation, authorship (e.g. the Burke text) and the ‘literary’.
Most of the material in Sessions 6-8 is in the field of postcolonial studies and there are numerous introductory works and readers in this field. My suggestions include:
Ahmad, Aijaz, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (London, Verso, 1992).
– ‘The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality’ [1995], in Padmini Mongia ed., Contemporary
Postcolonial Theory: A Reader . (London, Arnold, 1996) 276-293.
Boehmer, Elleke, Colonial and postcolonial literature: migrant metaphors , 2nd edition (Oxford,
Oxford University Press, 2005).

Hallward, Peter, Absolutely postcolonial : Writing between the singular and the specific
(Manchester, MUP 2001).
Hiddleston, Jane, Understanding postcolonialism (Stocksfield, Acumen, 2009).
Moore-Gilbert, Bart, Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (London, Verso, 1997).
Williams, Patrick, and Chrisman, Laura, Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A
Reader (NY, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993).
Young, Robert J C, Postcolonialism: an historical introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).
My book also has an introductory dimension and is particularly concerned with the place of literature in postcolonial studies:
Harrison, Nicholas, Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction (Cambridge,
Polity, 2003); as is
Sorensen, Eli Park, Postcolonial studies and the literary: theory, interpretation and the novel
(Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
The Williams collection includes, on Said,
Dennis Porter, ‘ Orientalism and its problems’ (Chapter 7); and
Aijaz Ahmad, ‘Orientalism and After’ (Chapter 8);
Recent collections of essays on Said include
Ghosh, Ranjan (ed.), Edward Said and the literary, social, and political world (New York,
Routledge, 2009).
Iskandar, Adel & Hakem Rustom (eds ), Edward Said: a legacy of emancipation and representation (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2010).
In Williams, the essays on gender include
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial
Discourses’ (Chapter 11); and
Sara S uleri, ‘Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition’ (Chapter 13).
The former essay is also in
Lewis, Reina & Sara Mills (eds), Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (Edinburgh University
Press, 2003); and there are further interesting essays in
Bennett, Andrew (ed.), Readers and Reading (Harlow: Longman, 1995).
It is also well worth reading further works by the set authors, e.g.
Parry , ‘Resistance theory/Theorizing resistance, or two cheers for nativism’, reprinted in various collections including her own Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (London,
Routledge, 2004);
Said, Culture and Imperialism (London, Chatto & Windus, 1993);
Spivak, Death of a Discipline (New York, Columbia University Press, 2003);
— and any recent work by Rancière.
On the notion of hybridity, which is central to Bhabha, I recommend
Young, Robert, Colonial desire: hybridity in theory, culture, and race (London, Routledge, 1995)
Nationalism is discussed in many of the texts mentioned already; other works you may find useful include:

Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities , [1983], (London, Verso, 1991).
Lazarus, Neil, ‘National consciousness and the specificity of (post)colonial intellectualism’, in
Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory , ed. F. Barker, P. Hulme, & M. Iversen, (MUP,
1994), 197-220; see also his
— Nationalism and cultural practice in the postcolonial world (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1999); and
— (ed.) The Cambridge companion to postcolonial literary studies (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004).
Fanon is in many of the readers, as author or subject. You might also try
Fanon: A Critical Reader ed. Lewis R Gordon et al (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
On the issue of the canon and education, an influential text is
Guillory, John, Cultural capital: the problem of literary canon formation (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1993); if you are interested in the book history aspect of this, try:
The book history reader ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (London: Routledge, 2002).
Also, in connection with these themes and the Steiner essay, you might look at other essays in:
Comparative literature in an age of globalization ed. Haun Saussy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2006); and, on the topic of 'world literature'
Damrosch, David, What is world literature?
(Princeton University Press, 2003).
On Rancière recent collections of critical work include
Rockhill, Gabriel & Philip Watts (eds), Jacques Rancière: history, politics, aesthetics (Durham,
Duke University Press, 2009); and special numbers of the following journals:
SubStance 33:1 (2004), ed. Eric Méchoulan
Paragraph 28.1 (2005), ed. Mark Robson.
NH December 2010