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Marxist Literary Criticism

Marxist Literary Criticism. Does not support Marxist communism or socialism. This is simply a way of reading and interpreting art. Think of this as a lens to look through & see better. What Marxist critics do:.

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Marxist Literary Criticism

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  1. Marxist Literary Criticism Does not support Marxist communism or socialism. This is simply a way of reading and interpreting art. Think of this as a lens to look through & see better.

  2. What Marxist critics do: • (1) Make a division between the “overt” (manifest or surface) and “covert” (latent or hidden) content of a literary work • (2) Relate the context of a work to the social-class status of the author • (3) Explain the nature of a whole literary genre in terms of the social period which “produced” it

  3. What Marxist critics do: • (4) Relate the literary work to the social assumptions of the time in which it is “consumed” (or read) • (5) Look for symbols that create or reveal an • “individual versus exploitive system” theme • “oppressive culture” theme • “individual as dehumanized, mechanized, roboticized, zombiefied—only serving the larger cause; only producing for ‘greater good’” theme

  4. Examples of “Texts” with which to use the Marxist Lens • Antz animated film • Robots animated film • Surrogates film • Eagle Eye film • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest novel • Monsters, Inc. animated film • Across the Universe film Louis Althusser

  5. You’ve been trained in this already:

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