ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A work of literary criticism that considers how social and economic power structures are depicted in a 19th-century English novel would be an example of which type of literary criticism?
A
Marxist criticism
B
Reader-response criticism
C
Psychoanalytic criticism
D
New Criticism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Marxist Criticism-Focuses on how literary works are products of the economic and ideological determinants specific to that era. Critics examine the relationship of a literary product to the actual economic and social reality of its time and place (Class stratification, class relations, and dominant ideology).

Detailed explanation-2: -So Marxists generally view literature “not as works created in accordance with timeless artistic criteria, but as ‘products’ of the economic and ideological determinants specific to that era” (Abrams 149).

Detailed explanation-3: -Human institutions and ideologies that produce art and literary texts comprise the superstructure. Marxist criticism thus emphasizes class, socioeconomic status, and power relations among various segments of society. Marxist criticism places a literary work within the context of class and assumptions about class.

Detailed explanation-4: -Marxist literary criticism is a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories. Marxist criticism views literary works as reflections of the social institutions from which they originate.

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