Marxism and Literary Criticism Gracie Griffith, Spencer Decuir, Johnny Rollins, and Abel George

Basic Tenets of Belief Marxism is a political belief that believes in the elimination of social classes. Marx and Engels came to the conclusion that there was a struggle between classes which drove him to change his society through Marxism...

Basic Beliefs cont. From these beliefs, literary critics look with these points of view in pieces of writing. The author’s social class Its’ effects in the author’s society Examining history and the culture of the times in the text Investigating how the author correctly or incorrectly portrays the historical period

Marxist lit theory •Focuses on the representation of class distinctions and class conflict in literature. •Focuses more on social and political elements than artistic and visual (aesthetic) elements of a text.

The Years of Marxism The “Marxist Ideology” started in the mid-1800s when Karl Marx started to write about the basic ideologies of Marxism and publishing three different works on the basic theories and ideas present in Marxism. His Literary Works The Communist Manifesto Das Kapital The Contribution to the Critique of a Political Economy

Authors Using Marxism Karl Marx- wrote marxist criticism about Johann Wolfgang von Goeth and William Shakespeare Anton Chekhov, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky- powerful novelists and playwrights in Russia

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