I am foolishly attempting a 10 page paper that requires 20 sources. I want to cover the importance of using Marxist/class analysis in literature, or, barring that, the importance of choosing socialist literature in the English/Writing classroom.
I know it's a niche thing, but I'm too damned stubborn to change my paper to something similar and I'd like some help finding good resources on socialist theory regarding education.
There's been a bunch of discussion on Freire here over the years, you can probably get some good recs just from checking surrounding comments / various submissions.
Sorry I can't be of more help rn, but hopefully this gets you startedMost of these are in my to-read pile so I can't speak to them directly, but Terry Eagleton (Criticism and Ideology, Marxism and Literary Criticism, etc.), Raymond Williams (Culture and Materialism, etc.), Fredric Jameson (Marxism and Form, etc.), and Lukacs, although he wrote Theory of the Novel before he became a Marxist and mostly repudiated it, so maybe start with a later work. I really dug The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, especially his essay on Kafka and Mann.
Here's a bibliography of Marxist literary criticism (published in 1980) that could help you pad your source count if you're close to your deadline. Your nearest research library might have a similar, more recent book. https://archive.org/details/guidetomarxistli0000bull/page/2/mode/2up
Thank you! I think the bibliography you provided will be the most helpful, since it really is just a need for sources that are coherent at this point. A lot of the stuff I found so far was very theoretical rather than practical or had impenetrably academic language.
Oof, yeah, that's why so much of Jameson remains in my to-read pile after so many years. I like him but sometimes he's hard to want to read. Actually, wait, he does have one that's eminently readable and might be perfect for your paper - The Detections of Totality, on Raymond Chandler and applying class analysis to the detective novel. It changed the way I read crime fiction and it's easy to imagine the book making it onto a syllabus for a class on how to write it.
Good luck with the paper!
