In This Collection Of Mori Than A Decade Of Bracing criticism. Eagleton comes face to face with, among others. Stanley Fish, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Ž iž ek. Seamus Heaney--even David Beckham--and skewers the current elite of cultural...
Terry Eagleton is one of the most importantâand most radicalâtheorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are...
Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.
Ist das "Ende der Ideologie" nahe? Das Werk bringt Klarheit in die Vielzahl der Ideologiedefinitionen von der Aufklärung bis zur Postmoderne, bei Marx, Engels, Lukács, Gramsci, Adorno, Althusser und anderen. Witzig, geistreich, außerorde...
The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to a new audience, and argues persuasively for a totally new way of reading. As such, it is an essential work for anyone interested in the development of literary theory.
This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a âpublic sphereâ in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason...
Myths of Power - Anniversary Edition sets out to interpret the fiction of the Brontë sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not merely to relate literary facts, but by a close...
Terry Eagleton's work "Literary Theory" inspired a generation and established him as one of the leading thinkers of the Left. In this book he argues that the age of "high" theory has come to a close - and looks at what ought to...
Written by one of the worldâs leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.
Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century.
Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp...
Scholars and Rebels must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century...
When James Joyce called the Irish âthe most belated race in Europe,â he stated a complex truth about the history of his people and the nation they had been creating since the eighteenth century. The Irish would, in Joyc...