Its primary focus on work and the working class led to it being studied with emphasis on Marxist literary criticism.
Much of the work done on Levine's Poetry is Marxist literary criticism.
In the late-1980s, 1990s, and 2000s ideological, postcolonial, and Marxist criticism dominated Austen studies.
Scholars have employed various types of Marxist social criticism to analyze cultural artifacts.
Marxist literary criticism has not produced a new theory in over twenty years.
Marxist criticism is not merely a 'sociology of literature', concerned with how novels get published and whether they mention the working class.
It is through the theories of class struggle, politics and economics that Marxist literary criticism emerged.
One thing that Marxist criticism has not succeeded in doing is to trace the connection between "tendency" and literary style.
Marxist criticism has a short way with such phenomena as Surrealism.
From the perspective of Marxist literary criticism the story might be a critique of Capitalism in its last stage.