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a Marxist theory of literature topic/literary-theory

[...] It means a great deal, however, for a Marxist theory of literature. If literature is a particular form by means of which objective reality is reflected, then it becomes of crucial importance for it to grasp that reality as it truly is, and not merely to confine itself to reproducing whatever …

—p.33 Aesthetics and Politics Realism in the Balance (28) by György Lukács
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reifying

The reification of late capitalism--the transformation of human relations into an appearance of relations between things--renders society opaque

—p.212 Reflections in Conclusion (196) by Fredric Jameson
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Marxian

the classical Marxian notion of the necessity, during the transition to socialism, of a 'dictatorship of the proletariat'

—p.210 Reflections in Conclusion (196) by Fredric Jameson
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propitiousness

The legacy of German Expressionism provided a more propitious framework for the development of a major debate within Marxism than its contemporary French counterpart, surrealism, was to do

—p.197 Reflections in Conclusion (196) by Fredric Jameson
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