Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0249 - Marxism and Literature

This course will look at the relationship between Marxism and literature in diverse contexts, and will pose a series of questions about the relationship between the material conditions of production and cultural production more generally. Readings will be historical, exploring the links between Marxism, socialist movements, and literary form that evolve in the 19th century, and contemporary, looking at work by diverse writers and thinkers who have interrogated, in various ways through their work, the cultural logics of late capitalism. Possible readings in Baudelaire, Benjamin, Blanqui, Proudhon, Flaubert, Melville, Stuart Hall, Frederic Jameson, Fred Moten, and Edouard Glissant.

Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research In this course, students are expected to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.