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Articles by Francis Mulhern
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Culture and Society, Then and Now
in NLR 55, January-February 2009, pp. 31-45
Subjects: Aesthetics , Britain , Communist Movement
The idea of culture in Raymond Williams’s classic work, and discrepant readings of it, fifty years on. Gestation amid CP debates on the English tradition, hidden affinities with the Frankfurt School, and counterposition to the verities of today’s liberal multiculturalism.
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Conrad's Inconceivable History
in NLR 38, March-April 2006, pp. 59-93
Subjects: Literature
The fascination of Joseph Conrad’s novels with the transformative pressures of capitalist modernity threatens a revelation so intolerable, Mulhern suggests, that it can only be contained within dense narrative strategies of deferral and disavowal.
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What is Cultural Criticism?
in NLR 23, September-October 2003, pp. 35-49
Subjects: Aesthetics , Literature
Meanings of culture, the place of politics and role of intellectuals in the practice of criticism, as conceived since Arnold. Replying to Stefan Collini in NLR 18, Francis Mulhern asks how far the arts of a conversible portraiture bear on a critical agenda.
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Beyond Metaculture
in NLR 16, July-August 2002, pp. 86-104
Subjects: Aesthetics , Literature
Replying to Stefan Collini in NLR 7, Francis Mulhern extends his critique of the pretensions of culture to general social authority, to the Marxist versions of Kulturkritik in the Frankfurt School. What defines the difference between politics and culture as practices?
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Britain After Nairn
in NLR 5, September-October 2000, pp. 53-66
Subjects: Britain , Nationalism , Political Theory and Strategy
How far can the path from Thatcher to Blair be written as a dynamic of Ukanian constitutional involution, or devolution? Francis Mulhern questions whether classes can be so quickly bundled off-stage. Is it possible to speak of nations—English, Scottish, Irish or any other—as political communities, without social or ideological dispositions?
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Towards 2000, or News From You-Know-Where
in NLR I/148, November-December 1984, pp. 5-30
Subjects: Britain , Political Theory and Strategy
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'Teachers, Writers, Celebrities': Intelligentsias and Their Histories
in NLR I/126, March-April 1981, pp. 43-59
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History
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Marxism in Literary Criticism
in NLR I/108, March-April 1978, pp. 77-87
Subjects: Aesthetics
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Introduction to Goldmann
in NLR I/92, July-August 1975, pp. 34-38
Subjects: Aesthetics
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- Comment on 'Ideology and Literary Form'
- The Marxist Aesthetics of Christopher Caudwell