Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these works of ideological criticism in order of publication.
- Lukács, History and Class Consciousness (1923)
- Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
- Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977)
- Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (written 1846)
- Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production (1966)
Hints
- The founding text is more than seventy years before the next.
- Macherey's book precedes Althusser's essay, though he was Althusser's student.
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- Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (written 1846)
- Lukács, History and Class Consciousness (1923)
- Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production (1966)
- Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
- Williams, Marxism and Literature (1977)
Why
The gap between the first two entries matters: for most of a century there was Marxist politics without much Marxist literary theory. The concentration of the last three into eleven years reflects the moment when structuralism gave the tradition a method precise enough to be argued with.
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