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Open University, Popular Culture, Course Unit U203 (Milton Keynes 1978). Papers by
Bennett, Eagleton, Hall and Williams on various approaches to popular culture.
Palmer, J., Thrillers (Edward Arnold 1978). Examines the origins and development of the
thriller as a distinctive popular genre.
Screen Education, no. 22, ‘Popular culture and education’ (1977).
van der Will, W. (ed.), Workers and Writers (University of Birmingham German
Department monograph 1975).
Worker Writers and Community Publishers, Writing (Centerprise Publications 1978).
Worpole, K., ‘Politics and writing’, in Radical Education, no. 12 (1979).

Reading

Althusser, L., ‘Ideology and ideological state apparatuses’, in Lenin and Philosophy and
Other Essays (New Left Books 1971). A key essay for materialist criticism, which
introduces the notion of interpellation in relation to ideology.
Bathrick, D., ‘The politics of reception theory in the GDR’, in Minnesota Review, no. 5
(1975). A useful survey of the theories of reception aesthetics.
Cohen, R., New Directions in Literary History (Baltimore: Baltimore Press 1974). A
selection of articles from the journal New Literary History. Its selection of works
pertaining to reception theory and reading is particularly useful.
Escarpit, R., Sociology of Literature (Frank Cass 1971). One of the most thoroughly
researched examples of empirical sociology of literature.
Hohendahl, P., ‘Introduction to reception aesthetics’, in New German Critique, no. 10
(1977).
Mehlman, J., ‘Teaching reading: the case of Marx in France’, in Diacritics, vol. 6, no. 1
(1976). An account of some of the theoretical and political effects of Althusser’s
notion of symptomatic readings.
Naumann, M. (ed.), Gesellschaft-Literatur-Lesen (Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag 1973). An East
German attempt to develop a Marxist literary ‘reception aesthetics’, drawing on
Grundrisse and Brecht; it includes an interesting critique of theories of reading. A
translation of the main body of ideas can be found in New Literary History, no. 8
(1976).

Bibliographies

Fairbanks, Carol, More Women in Literature: Criticism of the Seventies (NJ: Scarecrow
Press 1979).
Lawford, P., Marxist Aesthetics: A Short Bibliography (Keele University Department of
Sociology and Social Anthropology Occasional Papers 1977).
Lazere, D., ‘Mass culture, political consciousness and English Studies: a selected
bibliography’, in College English, vol. 38, no. 8 (1977).
Myers, Carol Fairbanks, Women in Literature: Criticism of the Seventies (NJ: Scarecrow
Press 1976)