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"Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves. Integrating history and theory, this innovative book explains the development of fashion writing, the theoretical basis on which it sits, and how it might be improved and applied. Through concise snapshot case studies, top international scholars McNeil and Miller analyse fashion excerpts in relation to philosophical ideas and situate them within historical contexts. Case studies include classic examples of fashion writing, such as Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar and Richard Martin on Karl Lagerfeld, as well as contemporary examples such as Suzy Menkes and the blogger Tavi.Accessibly written, Fashion Writing and Criticism enables readers to understand, assess and make value judgments about the fascinating and changeable field of fashion. It is an invaluable text for students and researchers alike, studying fashion, journalism, history and media studies"--

Considers how 1920s-1930s Marxist critics dealt with three central literary problems: (1) the relation of form to content; (2) the relation of literature to history; & (3) the relation of an author's ideology to his or her creative work. It is observed that early Marxists took a number of diverse approaches to the issue of form & content, contradicting the conventional criticism that Marxism of the period was inappropriately economistic. However, it is shown that, despite these varied approaches, nearly all saw that a deep understanding of history was essential for any great literature. It is found that these Marxists were able to uncover oppositional beliefs in the literature they examined, although authors experienced difficulty in discerning their own ideological positioning. It is concluded that contemporary Marxist literary critics may take from these earlier scholars the necessity of a deep understanding of history & their consciousness of social forces in the making of art & its significance. D. M. Smith

THE TREATMENT OF THREE CENTRAL LITERARY PROBLEMS BY A NUMBER OF VERY DIVERSE MARXIST CRITICES, DRAWN PREDOMINANTLY FROM THE CLASSIC WORKS OF THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES IS EXAMINED IN THIS ARTICLE. THE PROBLEMS ARE: 1) THE RELATION OF FORM TO CONTENT, 2) THE RELATION OF LITERATURE TO HISTORY, AND 3) THE RELATION OF AN AUTHOR'S IDEOLOGY TO HIS CREATIVE WORK. SHE ARGUES THAT A GOOD MARXIST CRITIC WILL USE HIS OWN MATERIALIST UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY AND HIS CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOCIAL FORCES TO MAKE MORE FULLY APPARENT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A WORK AND THE ART OF ITS CREATOR, NOT TO SUBSTITUTE FOR THEM.