The Reign of Ideology

by Eugene Goodheart

Book Overview

In The Reign of Ideology Goodheart presents a powerful, tenacious critique of the prevailing fixation on ideology in literary theory. Exposing the debilitating effects of much "ideology critique" -which seeks to reveal the effects of power, privilege, and interest underlying critical approaches to works of art- whether practiced by feminists, neo-Marxists, Foucauldians, New Historicists, or post-colonialists, he argues for a new kind of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231106238
• ISBN13: 9780231106238
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher