Marxist Literary Theory Explained | Marx to Eagleton | MA English & UGC NET

Marxist Literary Theory is one of the most important approaches to literary criticism for MA English, UGC NET, SET, and other literature examinations. In this lecture, we trace the development of Marxist literary criticism from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to Terry Eagleton, focusing on the major concepts and critics you need to understand. In this lecture: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels — material production, class, class struggle, ideology Marxist approaches to literature and the nineteenth-century novel Socialist Realism and klassovost Christopher Caudwell Bakhtin, Medvedev & Voloshinov — sociological poetics Georg Lukács — realism, totality & typicality Bertolt Brecht — alienation effect Walter Benjamin — technical revolution, mass circulation & modernism Frankfurt School — Adorno, Horkheimer & Marcuse Antonio Gramsci — hegemony Pierre Macherey — gaps, fissures & absences Louis Althusser — social formation, ideology & Ideological State Apparatuses Fredric Jameson — the political unconscious Terry Eagleton — form, style, meaning, history, ideology & pseudo-reality The lecture focuses on understanding the movement of Marxist literary criticism, rather than simply memorising a list of critics and terms. Useful for: MA English Literature | UGC NET English | SET | Literary Theory | Marxist Criticism #englishliterature #ugcnetenglish #readingotherwise #literarycriticism #literarytheory #ugcnet #criticalthinking #englishmajors #MarxistLiteraryTheory #MarxistCriticism #UGCNETEnglish #MAEnglish #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryTheory #LiteraryCriticism #TerryEagleton #GeorgLukacs #Gramsci #Althusser #FredricJameson