Marxism and Literary Criticism (Eagleton) by Stacey Kikendall https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac en-us 2022-10-17 17:30:22 UTC 2022-10-17 19:18:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Instructions 7354021 https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343696111 1.Define terms: Base, Superstructure, Ideology
2.Identify 3 important or main ideas
3.Be prepared to share
]]> 2022-10-17 17:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343696111 Group 1 https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343849353 1. Base is the economic structure of society. Superstructure includes the laws and politics of that society. The superstructure's purpose is to limit the power of the laboring masses. Ideology includes the values and ideas that come from the dominant institutions of society, such as politics, religion, and ethics. 

2. Three important ideas from the text: (1) Marxism's aim is to explain literary work more fully, paying attention not just to the base but also to the style and form of the work itself. (2) Eagleton asserts that culture does not just influence literature/art--art in turn influences society. (3) Literature and its impact on readers is not time-bound. This is part of Marx's "revolutionary understanding of history itself".

]]> 2022-10-17 19:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343849353 Hannah, Lexi, and Matthew's Answers https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343849573 1. Base: made up of class and the forces and relations of economics
Superstructure: those in power maintaining the status quo- the containing force of the social class by means of economic production
Ideology: political, religious, ethical, and aesthetic ideas used to legitimate the class in power 
2. Main Ideas: 
- 'Sociology of Literature'- less concerned with how class is simply mentioned in a text, and rather addressing how form and style shape, uphold, or change those meanings
- The work that you produce determines one's place in society and social value
- Art makes up a part of the "superstructure" upholding the status quo]]> 2022-10-17 19:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343849573 Group 2. https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343849775 1.  theory:  Analyzing text through their class structures and historical context. 
Base: the economic structure of society which is made up of forces and relations of production 

superstructure: certain forms of laws and politics whose essential function is to legitimize social class .

ideology: forms of social consciousness that legitimize the power of the ruling class. 
2. three main ideas 
- capitalist production of literature
- literature is a part of the revolution 
-the creativity of the worker being diminished / workers being seen as machinery not human. 
- history of oppression and how the ruling class controls the narrative. 

]]> 2022-10-17 19:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343849775 Group 4 https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343854662 1. Base; The sum of the productive and reproductive resources 

Superstructure; the ideologies that dominate a particular era

Ideology; rooted in contradictory relations, specifically operating to distort and thus justify the exploitation taking place in the capitalist exchange process

2. social class was designated by the class that had the most power and that was seen as natural

Ideology is the product of the concrete social relations into which men enter at a particular time and place; it is the way those class-relations are experienced, legitimized and perpetuated. 

Men are not free to choose their social relations; they are constrained into them by material necessity -- by the nature and stage of development of their mode of economic production ]]> 2022-10-17 19:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/7354021/w62uusa7o9q57mac/wish/2343854662