000727582 000__ 05186cam\a2200517Ii\4500 000727582 001__ 727582 000727582 005__ 20230306140927.0 000727582 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000727582 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000727582 008__ 150610t20152015gw\\\\\\ob\\\\000\0\eng\d 000727582 019__ $$a914151002 000727582 020__ $$a9783662463505$$qelectronic book 000727582 020__ $$a3662463504$$qelectronic book 000727582 020__ $$z9783662463499 000727582 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)ocn910915943 000727582 035__ $$aSP(OCoLC)910915943$$z(OCoLC)914151002 000727582 040__ $$aN$T$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cN$T$$dN$T$$dOCLCO$$dGW5XE$$dIDEBK$$dN$T$$dOCLCO$$dYDXCP$$dEBLCP$$dOCLCO$$dDEBSZ 000727582 049__ $$aISEA 000727582 050_4 $$aZ1374 000727582 08204 $$a016$$223 000727582 1001_ $$aChen, John Z. Ming$$q(John Zhong Ming),$$eauthor. 000727582 24510 $$aMarxism and 20th-century English-Canadian novels$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba new approach to social realism /$$cJohn Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji. 000727582 264_1 $$aHeidelberg :$$bSpringer,$$c[2015] 000727582 264_4 $$c©2015 000727582 300__ $$a1 online resource 000727582 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000727582 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000727582 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000727582 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references. 000727582 5050_ $$aDedication; Preface; Marxism and World Literature; Marxism and Canadian Literature; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: (Neo-)Marxist Approach, History, and Beginnings: Marxist Socialism and Canadian Social Realist Novels; Chapter 1: Introduction: Reality, Realism and (Neo-)Marxist Definitions and Paradigms; 1.1 Redefining "Realism" Before Réalisme: A Long Story Briefly Told from a Marxist Perspective; 1.1.1 Plato's Idealist Concept of Reality: The Parable of the Cave, the Analogy of the Mirror, and the Hierarchical Imitation of the Form 000727582 5058_ $$a1.1.2 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 000727582 5058_ $$a1.3.2 Realism, Literary Theory: The Concept of Typicality, Totality, Objectivity and the Principle of Contradiction1.3.3 Marxist-Feminist Parameters, the Family: Power Relations Therein, Private Property and Commodification, Monogamous Mode of Reproduction and Sexuality; Socialization and Politicization of Female Labour, the Triad of Values; 1.4 The Deficiency of English-Canadian Criticism on Social Realism and Socialism, the Revival of Marxist and Neo-Marxist Criticism and Methodology 000727582 5058_ $$aChapter 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 000727582 5058_ $$a2.4 The Cold War, the Korean War, Mass Production, Urbanization, Anti-American Imperialism and (Neo-)Marxist Analysis2.5 Conclusion; Chapter 3: Early Beginnings of "Violent Duality": From Prairie Realism to Urban Social Realism in Durkin's The Magpie; 3.1 Politicizing the City and the Country with the Ideologies of Socialism and Capitalism, Entering the Proletariat as a Class and Localizing and Radicalizing Temporality and Spatiality; 3.2 Strategies of Characterization: Ideas and the Individual (Polarizing City Residents by Class and Ideology); 3.3 Women, the Family and Politics 000727582 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000727582 520__ $$aThis 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. 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