Chaves Theory And Criticism 2

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political and cultural institutions, our social relations, sets of ideas; our cultures, hopes, dreams and spirit. THis is the world of souls, so to speak, but for Marx these are souls shaped by capital.

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SUPERSTRUCTURE

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the paticular form of material production, money, objects, the relations of production and the stage of development of productive forces. The palpable and tangible world, plus the economic relations that capital generates.

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BASE

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Theory of when the development of the economic base determines the history of cultural phenomena. In turn, lit and art merely reflect socio-economic reality.

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Reflectionist theory or Vulgar Marxism or determinism

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One function of ______ allows us to observe suffering or oppression in others- and even to undergo it ourselves- while thinking that it is normal or at least unavoidable. Like how capitalists think capitalism is just the way it is.

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ideology

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"The product of labor is labor which has been congealed in an object, which has become material: it is the objectification of labor" or The value of a commodity is dtermined by the quantity of socially necessary labor time required to produce it.

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The labor theory value

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a paticular use or function for a commodity

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use-value

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the various exchange values assigned to different objects are "characterized precisely by their abstraction from their use-values" "price"

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exchange-value

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in anthropology _______ refers to the 'primitive' belief that godly powers can inhere in inanimate things.

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fetishism

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Marx uses this term to refer to the apparently magical quality of the commodity- magical, because the power that comes in fact from laor seems to inhere in the object itself.

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commodity fetishism

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When a paticular social relation between people instead assumes "the fantastic (an illusion) form of a relation between things."

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reification-- closely related to objectification

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Ideas about law, politics, and art come from the human brain in its infinite and timeless fertility (or from God), and not from any paticular state of social or economic organization.

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Idealism

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An apparently objective or sommon sense, which is actually the paticular perspective of a dominant class. Ie what passes for reality or common sense is actually just the way things look; the dominant class has managed to convince themselves and others that this is how things work, the way people are, and that it's all mor or less fair and reasonable.

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ideology

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ideology may be understood as these three things:

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-a system of belief s characteristic of a paticular class or group

-a system of illusory beliefs- false ideas or false consiousness- which can be contrasted w/ true or scientific knowledge

-the general process of the production of meanings and ideas

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Marx's word for the working class

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proletariat

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Guillory

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the school shapes the canon

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Williams

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Marxist

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wimsatt and beardsley

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the affective fallacy a confusion between the poem and its results

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referential meaning

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the role of which is to stabilize responses to a word

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emotive function

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emotive meaning is said to survive sharp changes in descriptive meaning

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jauss

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reader response