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Title: Marxist Literary Criticism


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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.

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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

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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, zombiefiedonly serving the larger
    cause only producing for greater good theme

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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 Cuckoos Nest novel
  • Monsters, Inc. animated film
  • Across the Universe film

Louis Althusser
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