The Significance of Theory: A Critical History

ISBN-13: 9780631172710 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 112 str.

Terry Eagleton

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Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics.

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Terry Eagleton′s work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. His writings have had a marked impact too on how these subjects are taught and studied. Always maintaining a clear sense of political goal, his work has ranged widely in subject and in method.

This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics. It includes a discussion of the nature and function of literary theory today, and in a major new essay on Adorno, offers a glimpse of Eagleton′s current work on the contradictory status of art in modern society and the relations between the aesthetic and the political.