ARTS3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Raymond Williams, Materialism, Commodification
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January 2 eagleton towards a science of the text p. 62. Relationship between literature and history hierarchy (inequality) Notion that history is real > ideology masques the real (eagleton) 2. Literature is valuable: overdetermined/concentrated example of dominant ideological process are at work to obscure history. Literary studies is ultimately in the service of historical knowledge; tells us something about nonfictional human experience. Literature is in the service of some broader workings of culture ( servant of cultural understanding ) Useful as a path to something else; not an end in itself. Cultural materialism vs. marx cultural historicism (relationships of productive human labor): definite, materially result of human labor relations. Structures of feeling (base and superstructure): base = set of material relations operating in human life; superstructure = everything else". Identify a structure of feeling that connects/affect (labor relations relating to cultural expressions) analogous to marx"s material labor relations and philosophy/politics/literature/art, etc.
