What are three facts about Marxist Literary Criticism?
Its history is as long as Marxism itself. Marxist literary critics have also been concerned with applying lessons drawn from the realm of aesthetics to the realm of politics. The English born Literary critic and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton, in his important 1976 work Marxism and Literary Criticism, defines Marxist criticism this way: “Marxist criticism is not merely a ‘sociology of literature’, concerned with how novels get published and whether they mention the working class. Its aim is to explain the literary work more fully; and this means a sensitive attention to its forms, styles and meanings.
