ENGL 2P70 Lecture 10: ENGL2P70 Lecture 10 Political Approaches
13 Feb 2017
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Overlapping of so-called political approaches with methodologies and precepts of other approach (formalist, historical, psychoanalytic: world-view: can suck up any methodology. If the point is to change the world then we will use the methodology. Political approaches and the university: over the past fifty or so years, these approaches have radically overhauled the terrain of literary studies (181); structural and existential changes to the university and to the field. Thinking of the university as not a rarefied space separate from the rest of the world, but a political space. Marxist theory: materialism: a focus on real (mostly economic) conditions affecting real people - the whole purpose of study, how do things work to affect you. Modes of production: the way goods are produced and exchanged within an economy. Base and superstructure: relationships of those in a society as related to specific system of exchange (or mode of production)
