Journal of Business Management & Social Sciences Research (JBM&SSR)
Volume 3, No.3, March 2014
Volume 3, No.3, March 2014
A Critical Analysis of Marxism and Literature by
Edmund Wilson
Dr. P.
Sreenivasulu Reddy, Assistant
Professor, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, A.P, India S Nagendra M,
Lecturer in English, SKSC Degree College, Proddutur, A.P, India
The
research was about A critical analysis of marxism and literature by Edmund
Wilson.
Wilson’s “Marxism and Literature” published
in 1938, is his study of the origins of socialism. The method of this study is qualitative design This research aims at how his
essay “Marxism and Literature” attempts at an evaluation of the impact of
Marxism on art and literature and literary criticism. In
a sys-tematic survey with extensive illustrations, he proves that art and
literature cannot be weapons for social, eco-nomic and political propaganda. It
encompasses the role of literature in Marxian system and various thoughts of
different Marxist philosophers and thinkers. According to Wilson, Marx and his
follower Angels were theorists of Marxist thought. They believed that the
development of human society was directly dependent on economic structure of the
time and place. This struc-ture resulted in the development of superstructure
or higher activities like politics, literature religion and art.
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