Altos e baixos da crítica literária dialética

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to sistematize and to publicize milestone ideas of left-wing literary criticism, notably of Marxist lineage, in so far as it pays attention to concepts and pondering modes. The crux of the matter is the issue of historical approach as an analytical method of literature, by summing up and putting into perspective the hallmark contributions of Marx, Engels, Lukács, Bakhtin, Adorno, and Benjamin, as well as our Brazilian thinkers Antonio Candido and Roberto Schwarz. These authors started from the precondition to elaborate in a particular way an angle of vision that would reveal a form of artistic representation as a kind of critical and armed testimony of the corresponding society. It follows then that the diversity of analytic trends within the same tradition.