Marxist Criticism - George Bisztray (essay date 1977)
George Bisztray (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: Bisztray, George. “Marxism and the Pluralism of Critical Methods.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 26 (1977): 10-16.
[In the following essay, Bisztray outlines the dialectical methods used by Marxist critics as an underlying criterion for the Marxist perspective in literary interpreation.]
We are told that we live in an era of pluralism of literary methods. Today, in German literary scholarship, Methodenpluralismus is a fashionable term, which has already inspired a number of studies and anthologies. Jost Hermand's pioneering Synthetisches Interpretieren (1968) was followed by several similar investigations.1 In France and the English-speaking countries, methodological discussion has been less profuse than in Germany, Scandinavia, and the East-Central European world. Nevertheless, even here the signs of change cannot be missed. In France, structuralism...
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