What is Gramsci's concept of hegemony?

Hegemony is the domination of one social class over others achieved primarily through cultural consent rather than physical force, making ruling-class values appear natural and commonsensical.

What are Althusser's Ideological State Apparatuses?

ISAs are institutions (schools, churches, media, family) that reproduce ruling ideology through belief and consent, as opposed to Repressive State Apparatuses (police, army) which operate through force.

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Marxist Criticism — UGC NET MCQs

25 past-paper pattern questions going beyond Marx/Gramsci/Althusser/Eagleton — Macherey’s textual silences, Benjamin’s aura, Adorno & Horkheimer’s culture industry, Marcuse, and E.P. Thompson.

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Pierre Macherey's A Theory of Literary Production (1966) argues that literary criticism should attend to:

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