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FIRST PAPER

Student's name: Ana Maria Prats Rodríguez

Title of the paper: The Application of the Marxist and Sociologist Theories on Virginia Woolf.

Author or topic:Marxist and Sociologist Literary Theories/Virginia Woolf.

Abstract or summary of the research in not more than 100 to max.150 words:

It has been a long time since Marx and Engels' Communist Manifest, but their influence is far too important not to be considered. Many authors up to these days have taken the Marxist theory as the basic point of reference for their own theories. Some of these authors-Georg Lukacs, the soviet methodists of the Socialist Realism or, in a less orthodox way, Bertold Brecht-have in common a utilitarian vision of literature: the belirf that any work must be regarded as a tool for reflecting reality; not as an individualist and subjective product for the capitalist society, but as a compromise with the Communist ideals.

These bases lead them to refuse the Modernist movement, which can be seen as the antithesis of Socialist tendencies with its subjective and pessimistic vision of a static individual world. Of course, this is not an ideal style for those who think that art should be just a vehicle to express social injustice and political ideology.

As an important Modernist writer, Virginia Woolf is the example of non-objective literature I will study in order to explain the difference between Marxist theories and Modernism.

Academic year 1998/1999

12.Marzo 1999

Universitat de València Press

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