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desire to emphasize difference between art and propaganda a writer's social class and its prevailing ideology (outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances etc) have a major bearing on what is written by him as a member of that class w.r.t. content, obviously, but also form deals with history in a generalized way - speaks of conflict within classes and clashes of large historical forces, but rarely discusses the detail of a specific historical situation or relates it closely to the interpretation of a particular historical text Leninist Marxist criticism: 1930s - reaction throughout Soviet society; State began to exert direct control over literature and he arts as well as everything else influenced by Lenin's argument that "Literature must become Party literature ... Literature must become part of the organized, methodical, and unified labors of the social democratic party> Soviet Writers' Congress (1934) outlawed liberal views; new Len...

Textbook scribblings: self/other authority/powerlessness advanced/backward white/colored beauty/lack thereof (ugliness) science(scientific)/superstition(superstitious) civilized/barbaric Christian(religious)/pagan own systems of language/native systems of language An important and recurring binary of self vs other, where, as above, the former is privileged over the latter. If you recall from Marxism, ideology is a set of ideas and beliefs propagated by a certain section of society (the dominant one, that possesses authority). This is done through control over discourse. The point is, the colonizers and the colonized made sense of or learned to make sense of their "self", respectively, in relation to one another (as, say, superior/inferior). Basically the colonizers were creating an identity for the "other" and imposing it through control and authority. Notebook scribblings: Adopt phase: postcolonial writer who adopts the Western way of writing ...

Tue, 5 Jan, 2016 read texts for covert desires and drives that motivate characters his psychological works "inaugurated" psychoanalytic criticism since, creativity and meaning, many artists realized, could be deeply embedded within the psyche, and, say, a painting unsuccessful repression - which means that repressed desires and memories found expression - through dreams, habits etc Freudian slips suggest that the unconscious also requires language - dreams, then, are basically metaphors For example, the Oedipus complex is a way of understanding male sexuality. Furthermore, fear of castration causes him to affiliate with the father (since the father is an un-overcomeable authority figure who establishes the law of kinship) and internalizes social norms. Real-life situation ice cream: id: Grab it ego: No man, we'll get in trouble superego: How about you ask first? Coz that's the right thing to do contribution of Freud was dream analysis (condensation, disp...