Books by Leonard Jackson

A study of structuralist theory from Saussure to the British cultural theorists of the 1970s and 80s. The book argues that the structuralist model of language was inadequate to account for the actual structures and functioning of language, let alone those of literature and society.

Literature, Psychoanalysis and the New Sciences of Mind gives a clear introduction to the theories of Freud and Jung, the strange linguistic rewriting of Freud by Jacques Lacan and the extraordinary variety of ways in which these have been applied to literature and literary theory.

Divided into three main parts (the politics of literary criticism, the foundations of Marxist theory, and Marxist theory and literature), this work covers topics such as class consciousness and ideology, literary criticism as political reaction, and the mental basis of reality.