Question
Two answers required. A Raymond Williams essay titled for these two concepts asserts that “there is no Hamlet, no Brothers Karamazov, no Wuthering Heights.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these two concepts from Karl Marx's Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Theorists like Williams argue that one of these concepts, a byword for a society's economic system, is a precondition for the other, which includes literature.
ANSWER: base AND superstructure [accept answers in either order]
[10e] In his book Culture and Society, Williams argues that this novel’s narrator, Winston Smith, comes to Marxist conclusions in declaring that “if there was hope, it must lie in the proles.”
ANSWER: Nineteen Eighty-Four [or 1984]
[10h] Williams devotes a chapter of Culture and Society to this other English literary theorist. This proponent of close reading wrote the foundational Principles of Literary Criticism and collaborated with C. K. Ogden on The Meaning of Meaning.
ANSWER: I. A. Richards [or Ivor Armstrong Richards]
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