Who developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in term of homologies?

homology, a correspondence between two or more structures. The Marxist critic Lucien Goldmann developed a theory of the relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies. In his Le Dieu Caché (1959), he observed a homology between the underlying structure of Racine's tragedies and that of the world‐view held by a particular group in the French nobility. This method was extended to the modern novel in Goldmann's Pour une sociologie du roman (1964). An example of something that bears a resemblance to something else is called a homologue, and is said to be homologous with it.

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