“The point is to change it”: The Imperative for Activist Literary Studies

The task undertaken in this paper is to discover a means by which the practice of literary criticism can derive an imperative for activism that confronts and changes the social conditions it critiques. The case of Karl Marx’s use of world literature in his critique of capitalism and the s...

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Main Author: Smith, Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2020-12-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2020-n33-the-point-is-to-change-it-the-imperative-for-activist-literary-studies