According to Joseph North in “A Concise Political History of Literary Criticism,” New Historicism originated with a Marxist desire to identify how literary works are necessarily historically ...

Already a committed Marxist by the time he entered university ... we’re living in a golden age for literary criticism, which is flourishing in small magazines and online. More pressingly ...

Each was a great literary myth, to be appreciated in its ... It is the difference between these two myths that explains why Marxist criticism was so often only a summons to political action ...

The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution. By A.O. Scott At the time of his death, at 90, on Sept. 22, Fredric Jameson was arguably the ...

The Marxist critics of Bengali literature fascinate me. The more I read their works, the more the fascination grows. To realise how diligently they work to enrich the field of literary criticism with ...

Writer-journalist B.R. Manjunath has said as the Marxist method of literary criticism is based on the outlook of class struggle, it consequently adopts a historical approach while analysing ...

But what literary criticism is not for ... including deconstruction, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, semiotics and reader-response theory. Guillory, who taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins and ...

best known for his influential work in Marxist literary and cultural theory and criticism, but also as a novelist, memoirist, and public intellectual. I first read some of Eagleton’s work when I was ...

Should literary criticism be an art or a science ... this has the effect of emphasizing Moretti’s Marxist roots. Moretti’s impulses are inclusive and utopian. He wants critics to acknowledge ...

By the 1980s, literary criticism was seen drifting towards Marxism spearheaded by critics such as Sucharitha Gamlath. Once again, with Marxism being a living-theory, the writing and criticism could ...