Ideology and discourse: reading literature as cultural practice

What this note covers

1. What ideology does: Althusser, ISAs, and interpellation
2. Hegemony and consent: Gramsci and the contested literary field
3. Discourse, power, and the production of literary 'truth': Foucault
4. Orientalism and colonial discourse: Said and the literary construction of the Other
5. Literary form as ideology: aesthetics, genre, and the reproduction of social relations
6. Intertextuality as ideological field: allusion, genre memory, and contested traditions
7. Articulating the argument: writing ideological critique in QCAA contexts

7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes