Using the following quote from Terry Eagleton as a starting point, theorize the concept of IDEOLOGY in an essay of no more than 2500 words. Include the work of Eagleton plus that of any two of the theorists below. You may use, but are not limited to the material in the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.
Literature, in the meaning of the word we have inherited, is an ideology. It has the most intimate relation to questions of social power. [. . .] As a liberal, “humanizing” pursuit, [literature] could provide a potent antidote to political bigotry and ideological extremism. Since literature, as we know, deals in universal human values rather than in such historical trivia as civil wars, the oppression of women or the dispossession of the English peasantry, it could serve to place in cosmic perspective the petty demands of working people for decent living conditions or greater control over their own lives, and might even with luck come to render them oblivious of such issues in their high-minded contemplation of eternal truths and beauties. — from “The Rise of English” by Terry Eagleton (in the Norton 2243, 2245)
Matthew Arnold
Boris Eichenbaum
Cleanth Brooks
W.K. Wimsatt
Monroe Beardsley
Ferdinand de Saussure
Roland Barthes
Paul De Man
Michel Foucault
Levi Strauss
Gilles Deleuze
Félix Guattari
John Langshaw Austin
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Judith Butler
Helene Cixous
Donna Haraway
Laura Mulvey
Walter Benjamin
Max Horkheimer
Theodor Adorno
Jurgen Habermas
Stuart Hall
Raymond Williams
Houston A Baker
Gloria Anzaldua
Homi K. Bhabha
*NOTES: Theorize in this case is synonymous with problematize. Present a thesis and antithesis. Defining IDEOLOGY may be useful but is not required. The quote above does not necessarily have to be cited in its entirety, but fragments of it should appear at some point in the paper*
