[Dragaera] Cool Stuff Theory of Litterature was: (RE: Steven Erikson

[Howard Brazee]

On 1/23/2009 skzb wrote:
>  Um.  Not so much.  That is a pseudo-Marxist approach.  A traditional
>  Marxist reading would focus on finding the fundamental contradictions
>  that drive the work.  For example, in The Book of the New Sun, much
>  of
>  what makes it work is the contradiction between Sevarian's humanity
>  and
>  the inhumanity of his profession.  It would also focus on the
>  relationship of form to content, and of the particular to the general
>  (internal quest vs. external, and  the ways in which the characters
>  do
>  or do not expression universal human problems, and how a given work
>  succeeds or fails in presenting that).  "A work of art must be
>  considered first of all as a work of art." - Trotsky.

So why is that contrast particularly Marxist?   It seems to exist all over.