Literary theories are some ideas which try to define what literature is and how it needs to be studied. ... Marxist Criticism Marxism is a way of seeing the world around us through the economic terms. ... Marxism is concerned with economy, social class and the implications and complications of the capitalist system: "Marxism attempts to reveal the ways in which our socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of our experience" (Tyson 277). The English literary critic and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton defines Marxist criticism this way: "Marxist criticism is not merely a 'sociology of l...

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Postmodernism is hard to define because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study such as art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, technology, and politics. ... Every belief system has its grand narratives like for instance Marxism. ... I guess you could think of a grand narrative as an ideology that explains an ideology (like Marxism). ...

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There is, suggests Jameson a kind of winner loses logic about it, the more one tries to define what is characteristically postmodern the less characteristic it turns out to be. ... In this sense postmodernism is defined in relation to modernism and specifically the high modernism of the inter- war years. ... I should, perhaps, point out that the problem for Marxists with the notion of postmodernism, particular in the second sense in which I defined it above, as a new economic and social order, is that at a stroke it abolishes Marxism's founding premise. Marxism, along with psychoanalysis...

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