Marx, Engels on literature and art.

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE This collection is compiled on the basis of two books published in Russian : Marx and Engels, On Art (Moscow, 1967) and Marx and Engels, On Literature (Moscow, 1 958). ·It also includes other material, such as an excerpt from Engels' manuscript "Slavic Languages and Philology", "Critical Articles" by Marx's wife Jenny, etc. The collection is divided into sections according to subjects. The headings and subheadings have been supplied by the editors. Some of the translations have been taken from various collections of Marx's and Engels' works put out by Progress Publishers. All other items have been translated from the German, unless otherwise in(licated. PUBLISHERS' NOTE Contents Preface Materialist Conception of the History of Culture Social Being and Social Consciousness Natural Conditionsand Development of Culture Landscapes Against Vulgarisation of Historical Materialism Engels About Mehring's The Lessing Legend Class Relations and Class Ideology Scientific and Vulgar Conceptions of Class Ideology Historical Continuity and Its Contradictions Uneven Character of Historical Development and Questions of Art General Problems of Art Ideological Content and Realism The Tragic and the Comic in Real History Problems of Revolutionary Tragedy Miscellaneous Items Language and Literature Improvisation and Poetry On Literary Style On Literary Polemics On Translation Art in Class Society The Origin of Art Historical Development of the Artistic Sense The Role of Labour in the Origin of Art Artistic Creation and Aesthetic Perception Social Division of Labour Division of Labour and Social Consciousness Estrangement of Labour and the Condition of the Working People in Capitalist Society