The Keeper's Book: A Guide to the Duties of a Gamekeeper

The Keeper's Book: A Guide to the Duties of a Gamekeeper
ISBN-10
0710311583
ISBN-13
9780710311580
Category
Social Science
Pages
595
Language
English
Published
2005-03
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Mackie, Peter Jeffrey MacKie

Description

The main purpose of the book is to expand the scope of revisionary studies of the thirties by analyzing novels using recent innovations in critical theory. The book adds to the research of Barbara Foley, Michael Denning, Alan Wald, and others who have challenged Cold-War-era accounts of the decade's socialist and communist culture. The book explores leftist literature from the thirties as balanced between two antithetical philosophical modalities: identity and ideology. Writers create identitarian fiction, he argues, as they attempt to appeal to a mainstream audience using familiar types and patterns culled from mass culture. They engage ideology, on the other hand, when they use narrative as a means of critiquing those same types and patterns using strategies of ideological critique similar to those of their European contemporary Georg Lukács.

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