Marxist Literary Criticism Theory

Introduction

Literature is art and language. It is an aesthetic system involving a register of rhetorical genres, styles or figures and a socio-historical regime. It is the arch-text, a story involving constitutional (or course), which itself includes an institutional discourse. The Marxist theory of literature is one of the context-centered literary theories. The generic term covers those literary theories, which are based on the theory of Marxism and called the literature from the standpoint of the Marxist ideology of view. The various Marxist literary criticisms, therefore, the role of trying to work out what the literature and the arts in general play in society (Abrams 1999, 147).

Marxism is an influential political, scientific and historical ideas flow, both the socialism and the communism is attributed. As a Marxist since the second half of the 19th Century the followers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described. In a broader sense is a collective term for Marxism of Marx and Engels developed economic and social theory as well as for related philosophical and political views. Even people and mindsets that connect in a specific manner to the work of Marx and Engels are expected to Marxism. Over time, developed an independent Marxist philosophy, and in many disciplines of science with social respect their own Marxist tendencies such as a Marxist sociology, a Marxist economic theory, a Marxist literary theory or in the psychology of Freudo-Marxism (Biddle 1989, 113).

Discussion

Marxism is essentially a theory of the bourgeois-capitalist society that comes from the 'last instance' Determination of the economic base over the so-called 'superstructure' of political, social, cultural and artistic structures. Prepared by them was Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels explained in a practical purpose: to this form of society which is based on the exploitation of the proletarian class to overthrow and replace it with a socialist society without class conflicts. Under this practice, the primacy of art and literature are best understood as a by-product of changing the world. To that extent, only a few sectors of Marxist theory approaches for a specific theory of art, or the analysis of works of art: in the first place the conception of history and ideology of the concept of Marx's early writings.

The comments of the founding fathers of Marxist literature and art are usually very time-bound. As comprehensively educated citizens share Marx and Engels, the aesthetic standards and tastes that were already marked in the ...