ENGL 251A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Friedrich Engels, George Orwell, Scrivener
14 Dec 2017
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Week 8: marxist criticism and melville, bartleby the scrivener . Don"t believe there is anything beyond the material realm. Marxists believe that a work of literature arises out of the economic and ideological circumstances surrounding its creation and the creator"s own place in society. Literary works reflect, propagate, or challenge the prevailing social order. No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. --george orwell. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life (norton, 656) Consciousness is directly interwoven with the material activity and material intercourse of men, the language of real life (norton, 655) Our world, our material reality teaches us how to feel about ourselves. You are not born thinking you are less than rich, your conditions teach you this . Based on ideas of karl marx (1818-1883) & friedrich engels (1820-1895)
