Philip Larkin Exam Question

Marxism question answers

• Marx and Engels viewed literature as insignificant.
• The sociology of literature concerns itself with what might be called the means of literary production, distribution and exchange in that particular society. 
• Matisse believed about all art bears the imprint of historical epoch but that great art is that in which this imprint is most deeply marked.
• Marxism criticism is original as if focuses on the revolutionary  understanding of history itself.
• Art is part of the superstructure because it is an element in the complex structure of social perception which ensure that the situation in which one social class has power over the other is either seen by both members of society see as 'natural' or not seen at all.
• From Conrad's work the crisis of the western bourgeoisie class is that the permission of Conrads world view is rather a unique transformation of art into a ideological pessimism rife in his period- a sense of history as cynical and futile, as individuals as impenetrable and solitary, of human values relativistic and irrational, which marks a drastic crisis in the ideology of the wester bourgeoisie class which Conrad associated himself with.
• The four elements of unity in Marxism include text, ideology, social relations and levels of society.
• Engels letter to Joseph Bloch, Engels wanted to deny about the base and superstructure that there is any mechanical, one to one correspondence between base and superstructure; elements of the superstructure constantly react back upon and influence the economic base.
• Marx believes we enjoy classical Greek literature as it is a nostalgic lapse back into our childhood. 

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