ENGL 200 D: Reading Literature: Literature in the Marketplace

Take 1-3 sentences* from the excerpt of The German Ideology that you read last week, and write an exegetical commentary on them.

An exegetical commentary simply explains the sentences: describe what Marx is suggesting, interpret it, and explain why it matters.

Your goal is to take one small idea from Marx, and explain it to someone else. Think of your audience as being like our class, or someone whom you think of as your intellectual peer.

* 1 sentence is quite enough — if you choose 3, they should be consecutive; and the only reason to choose 3 sentences is that you think that readers need all three to understand Marx’s meaning.