MARXISM AND LITERATURE Notes: main points of the essay (Please note this is not a substitute for the original work) Meant for S2 MA English Students under Calicut University · It opens with a question on the role assigned to literature and art in the system of dialectical materialism · All activities incorporated at the “superstructure” level were possibly to be explained in terms of economics · There could be a reciprocal interaction, according to Engels, wherein which a great artistic period can influence to its very economic foundations · Marx and Engels never tried to give a socio-economic formula to test the validity of work of art · According to Edmund Wilson, they tried to respond to creative works based on their me...