K Marx
- to Marxist Approaches to Literature
These ideas have wide-ranging implications for literary criticism. Liberal humanist criticism tends to view the text as the product of an individual writer who is solely responsible for creating meaning. This text embodies timeless, universal values, expresses an idea of human nature which is stable and unchanging and is a self-contained, coherent entity. In this model, so long as the reader pays sufficient attention to the text, they would be able to recover the writer's meaning.
