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What is Cultural Criticism? Verso Reading

Featuring works from Francis Mulhern, Terry Eagleton, Michele Wallace, and more.

13 June 2024

What is Cultural Criticism? Verso Reading

What exactly is cultural criticism? What is the role of the cultural critic? And how can we deepen our engagement with contemporary society, politics, and philosophy?

Inspired by Stefan Collini and Francis Mulhern’s new book, What Is Cultural Criticism?, we have curated a list of works that offer key insights into the field. 

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  • Ideology

    Ideology

    by Terry Eagleton

    Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact, and so little understood as a concept, as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both students and for those alr...
  • Culture and Politics

    Culture and Politics

    by Raymond Williams

    Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of whic...
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  • The Function of Criticism

    The Function of Criticism

    by Terry Eagleton

    This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the...
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  • The Task of the Critic

    The Task of the Critic

    by Terry Eagleton

    Edited by Matthew Beaumont

    Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist de...
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  • Minima Moralia

    Minima Moralia

    by Theodor Adorno

    Translated by Edmund F.N. Jephcott

    Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-cen...
  • Invisibility Blues

    Invisibility Blues

    by Michele Wallace

    First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include ...
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