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This book will argue the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts. It conceives of the political perspective not as some supplementary method, not as an optional auxiliary to other interpretive methods current today — the psychoanalytic or the myth-critical, the stylistic, the ethical, the structural — but rather as the absolute horizon of all reading and all interpretation.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘The Communist Manifesto’, in Karl Marx, On Revolution, ed. and trans. S.K. Padover (New York, 1971), p. 81.
Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form (Berkeley, Calif., 1973), pp. 5–6;
see my ‘Symbolic Inference; or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis’, Critical Inquiry, 4 (1978), 507–23.
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Newton, K.M. (1997). Fredric Jameson: ‘On Interpretation: Literature as A Socially Symbolic Act’. In: Newton, K.M. (eds) Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_37
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