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Dedication; 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
1.1.2 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
1.3.2 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
Chapter 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
2.4 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
1.1.2 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
1.3.2 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
Chapter 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
2.4 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