Title: Three Dimensions of the Investigation into the Class Nature of Literature by Chinese Marxist Literary Criticism

Abstract: The investigation into the class nature of literature by Chinese Marxist literary criticism includes three dimensions. The first is the subject dimension, which affirms that writers who are the subject of creation all have class stand. They are born in class society and cannot transcend class nature, always become spokesmen of a specific class and serve it. The second is the object dimension, which suggests life and people in class society are beings of class nature. As the main feature of class society is class competition, people in social life cannot stay away from the restriction of class relations so that their thoughts and feelings partake of obvious class nature. The third is the nature dimension. Belonging to a specific class, all literary works have certain class attributes, carry the contents and play the role of the class.

Keywords: Marxist literary criticism, class nature, dimensions

Author: Shuihe Ji, Professor, School of Literature and Journalism, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China.