%0 Journal Article
%T One, Two, Many Ends of Literature
%A Nicholas Brown
%J Mediations
%D 2009
%I The Marxist Literary Group
%X What if we looked at the notion of the end of literature as a truism, only lacking in plurality and logical rigor? Nicholas Brown explains that one of these ¡°ends¡± can be regarded as internal to the functioning of literature itself, and as such, the point of departure for a more complete formulation of a Marxist literary criticism. For Brown, this formulation reveals that both literary criticism and Marxism are to be regarded as what he calls ¡°formal materialisms,¡± a mode of analysis that must be completed and revised every time in light of an object it cannot posit beforehand. What this means for a Marxist literary-critical project subsequently becomes all the more apparent in Brown¡¯s reading of another end of literature ¨C postmodernism.
%U http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/one-two-many-ends-of-literature