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Reading is a crucial skill for gaining knowledge, and literature acts as authentic material to increase students' critical knowledge. However, lecturers need to be selective when choosing material because literary authors might subtly include their political agendas. Literary works should feature resistant discourse (leftism) to challenge inappropriate dominant ideologies. This study, therefore, examined how a lecturer incorporated leftist ideas and Abrams' literary analysis to help university students critically analyze literature in a reading class. The qualitative method was employed, using an explanatory case study approach. The participants included one lecturer and six of the seventeen students. The results show that this integration significantly boosted students' reading enthusiasm and their ability to critically relate the story's idealism to their own reality. These positive outcomes stemmed from two instructional strategies: mastery of literary content in reading (focusing on cultural diversity, reading skills, and social awareness) and the reading instructional model (highlighting class control, active interaction, and analytical thought).