CRITICISM

Brenkman, John. “Raymond Williams and Marxism.” In Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams, edited by Christopher Pendergast, pp. 237-67. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

An analysis of Williams's writing that demonstrates his contribution to significant contemporary cultural and political issues.

Castellitto, George P. “Willy Loman: The Tension between Marxism and Capitalism.” “The Salesman Has a Birthday”: Essays Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, edited by Stephen A. Marino, pp. 79-86. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc., 2000.

An evaluation of Willy Loman's character as being representative of the tension between capitalism and socialism.

Castillo, Robert. “Ezra Pound: The Marxist Anti-Semitic Zionist?” Journal of American Culture (fall 1994): 49-54.

Critical evaluation of Tim Redman's interpretation of Pound as a left-wing extremist and anti-Semitic.

Elliott, Charles F. “Freedom, Marxism, and Modern Man: Solzhenitsyn's Moral Critique.” In Marxism in the Contemporary West, edited by Charles F. Elliott and Carl A. Linden, pp. 149-71. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1980.

A comparative analysis of Marx and Solhenitzyn's philosophies regarding socialism.

Gervais, Ronald J. “The Socialist and the Silk Stockings: Fitzgerald's Double Allegiance.” Mosaic 15, no. 2 (June 1982): 79-92.

Discussion of Fitzgerald's response to Marxism in his writings.

Holderness, Graham. “Production, Reproduction, Performance: Marxism, History, Theatre.” In Uses of History: Marxism, Postmodernism and the Renaissance, edited by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen, pp. 153-78. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.

Theorizes that Marxist interpretations of Renaissance drama are possible in addition to other ideologies.

Leighton, Lauren G. “Romanticism, Marxism-Leninism, Literary Movement.” Russian Literature 14, no. 2 (15 August 1983): 183-220.

Discussion of the Soviet debate over Romanticism, and how certain issues remain unresolved in the context of Marxist-Leninism.

Marshall, Todd. “Marxist Feminism in Brazil.” Romance Notes 36, no. 3 (spring 1996): 283-92.

Interprets Pagu's Parque Industrial, um romance proletário as a socialist text.

Onoge, Omafume F. “Towards a Marxist Sociology of African Literature.” In Marxism and African Literature, edited by Georg M. Gugelberger, pp. 50-63. London: James Currey Ltd., 1985.

An evaluation of African literature in the context of socio-political theologies inherent in a colonized culture.

Pickering, Jean. “Marxism and Madness: The Two Faces of Doris Lessing's Myth.” Modern Fiction Studies 26, no. 1 (spring 1980): 17-30.

Analysis of Lessing's works from a political perspective, focusing on her use of leftist ideas taken to the extreme in her writing.

Rockmore, Tom. “Lukács and Marxist History of Philosophy.” In Hungary and European Civilization, edited by György Ranki, pp. 429-47. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadŏ, 1989.

Studies the Marxist character of Lukács' interpretation of the history of philosophy.

Simons, Margaret A. “The Second Sex: From Marxism to Radical Feminism.” In Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons, pp. 243-62. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

Places The Second Sex in the context of radical feminist writing, noting that Beauvoir begins her book with a Marxist-based analysis of the class struggles that eventually led to economic developments and the women's movement.

Winston, Jane. “Marguerite Duras: Marxism, Feminism, Writing.” Theatre Journal 47, no. 3 (October 1995): 345-65.

Draws connections between Duras's Marxist and anti-colonial politics as expressed in her fiction and contemporary feminist issues.