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The 22 pages that link to Marxist literary criticism, each with the reason it gives.

• Literary criticismBroader topic: It connects a work’s forms and conflicts to economic and social structures.

• Feminist literary criticismCompared with: Its focus on class offers a distinct framework that feminist criticism often connects to gender.

• Historical criticismRelated: It made economic structures and social conflict central to literary interpretation.

• Walter BenjaminRelated: Benjamin expanded this criticism through attention to form, media, and historical perception.

• Russian FormalismCompared with: Marxist critics challenged formalism for separating literary form from social and historical forces.

• Arabic literary criticismRelated: It foregrounds historical power and social conflict in interpretations of Arabic works.

• Economic determinismRelated: It tests claims that economic structures shape cultural production and meaning.

• Louis AlthusserRelated: Althusser’s account of ideology influenced critics’ analyses of how literary works relate to social structures.

• Literary theoryRelated: It asks how literary forms reflect or contest the social relations of their production.

• Base and superstructureRelated: It applies the model to literary form, institutions, and the social relations represented in texts.

• Northrop FryeCompared with: Frye’s emphasis on literary conventions differs from Marxist criticism’s focus on social and economic forces.

• Cultural criticismRelated: It supplied early frameworks for connecting cultural works to social structures.

• James WoodCompared with: Wood’s aesthetic judgments differ from approaches that make social structure the primary interpretive frame.

• Fredric JamesonNarrower topic: Jameson reworked this tradition into a broad account of culture and historical change.

• Lionel TrillingCompared with: Its emphasis on social structures contrasts with Trilling’s attention to individual consciousness.

• Terry EagletonNarrower topic: Eagleton’s criticism develops this tradition while examining how literary form carries social and political meanings.

• Eric BentleyRelated: Bentley’s political commitments informed his readings of dramatic conflict and theatrical form.

• György LukácsNarrower topic: Lukács’s theories of realism and historical form became major reference points for this field.

• George SaintsburyCompared with: It foregrounds social structures that Saintsbury’s criticism generally did not make central.

• Literary scienceCompared with: It foregrounds economic structures that formal analysis may leave aside.

• Literature (academic discipline)Related: It connects literary representation to economic and social structures.

• Paul BénichouCompared with: It offers a different account of the social forces behind literary change.