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Marxist literary criticism is a theory of literary criticism based on the historical materialism developed by philosopher and economist Karl Marx. Marxist critics argue that even art and literature themselves form social institutions and have specific ideological functions, based on the background and ideology of their authors.
Harry Blamires (6 November 1916 – 21 November 2017) was an English Anglican theologian, literary critic, and novelist. Blamires was once head of the English department at King Alfred's College (now the University of Winchester ) in Winchester, England .
Western Marxism, Marxist hermeneutics, Marxist humanism: Amadeo Bordiga: Ercolano, Kingdom of Italy: Formia, Italy: Italian 1889–1970 Italian Left communism, Leninism: Bertolt Brecht [6] Augsburg, German Empire: East Berlin, East Germany: German 1898–1956 Marxist literary criticism: Nikolai Bukharin: Moscow, Russian Empire
The original theory behind this form of analysis is commonly associated with Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and the Frankfurt School, representing an important tendency within Western Marxism. Marxist cultural analysis has commonly considered the industrialization, mass-production, and mechanical reproduction of culture by the "culture ...
Cornforth argued that Caudwell's theory of poetry was idealized, dependent on a Freudian concept of pre-social 'instincts' that was incompatible with Marxism. George Thomson answered Cornforth in the next issue (Spring 1951) by reaffirming Illusion and Reality's contribution to literary criticism. The next two issues (Summer and Autumn) saw the ...
Marxist methodology uses economic and sociopolitical inquiry and applies that to the critique and analysis of the development of capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change. Marxist bibliography
Georg Lukács (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic, who founded Western Marxism with his magnum opus History and Class Consciousness. Written between 1919 and 1922 and first published in 1923, the collection of essays contributed to debates concerning Marxism and its relation to sociology ...
Since the mid-1960s and after the collapse of state socialism and Marxism-Leninism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, there has emerged a new critical literature by Western Marxist and non-Marxist scholars about the conceptual foundations of Marx’s theory of value [3] (but Eastern Marxian scholars have also contributed to the ...