Marxist literary criticism is a theory of literary criticism based on the historical materialism developed by philosopher and economist Karl Marx.

Marxist criticism is an approach to theory and literary commentary that questions society and culture.

Marxist literary criticism investigates literature's role in the class struggle. The best general introductions in English remain Terry Eagleton's Marxism and ...

Marxist literary criticism looks at the social and economic conditions that influence the creative processes behind a text as well as its ideological tensions ...

The Marxist critic simply is a careful reader or viewer who keeps in mind issues of power and money, and any of the following kinds of questions.

A form of cultural criticism that applies Marxist theory to the interpretation of cultural texts.

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 ...

Marxist criticism attempts to show the relationship between literature and the social—mainly economic—conditions under which it was produced ...

Marxist literature show how texts can be a benefit of social change either by illustrating the ills of society and/or creating a solution to the problem.

Marxist criticism is based on the economic, political and philosophical writings of Karl Marx, a German thinker who criticised the political and economic ...