MARXIST LITERATURE
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- Created on: 22-04-20 21:17
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- Marxism is a theory which focuses on the inequalities between social classes. It highlights the importance of the inequalities between those who have power (the oppressors) and those who do not (the oppressed)
- Karl Marx, the founding father of Marxism, believed that the Western capitalist system was created in order to increase the wealth of the bourgeoisie.
- Marxism questions whether a text supports the bourgeoisie or not
- Marxist critics believe that literature reflects the author's own political and cultural values.
- Marxist parties that were particularly prevalent in Western Europe have basically disappeared in recent years
- Marxism emphasises how social circumstances can predetermine the majority of your life
- marxist theorists believe that the way in which we view the world is largely determined by the contemporary economic structure.
- Marxists believe that capitalism thrives on the exploitation of labourers- to the extent that they feel completely alienated that they no longer view themselves as human beings, just simply units of production.
- Marxists argue that ones social class will constantly have an impact on their writing
- They distinguish in literature between the 'overt' (explicit) and 'covert' (implicit) content of literature, and then relate the 'covert' and then relate these to Marxist social conflicts.
- Additionally, Marxists relate the context of the work to the personal social status of the author.
- Marxist critics are very clear about the political stance that they hold, and it must be seen in reference to the concept of class struggle
- However, Marxist criticism is largely varied and still evolving
- An explicit Marxist may dismiss literature as a middle-class luxury in which they complain about their middle-class issues
- Traditional Marxist criticism consists of recreating history based on historical evidence and then assessing how accurate this representation is.
- Marxist critics must also consider the function of the art form in society
- Recent Marxist criticism has taken structuralism (method of analysis which focuses on elements of contrast) into account too.
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