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• Introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the past 35 years.
  
• Guides students along the cutting edge of current feminist theory.
  
• Suitable for students and scholars of all fields touched by feminist thought.
  
• Covers an exceptionally broad range of disciplines, discourses and feminist positions.
  
• Organised around concepts rather than schools of feminism.
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In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers a new theory of what we mean by literature. He also shows what it is that a great many different literary theories have in common.

In a highly unusual combination of critical theory and...

• A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists.
  
• Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day.
  
• Explores the idea of the 'tragic' across all genres of writing, as well as in philosophy, politics, religion and psychology,...

• a major new book from Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists
• investigates ethical...

• Fully revised and updated to reflect changes in the field over the last decade
• Includes extracts from all the major critics, critical approaches and theoretical positions in contemporary feminist literary studies
• Features a new section, Writing 'Glocal', which covers feminism's dialogue with postcolonial, global and spatial studies
• Revised chapter introductions provide readers with helpful contextual...

Terry Eagleton is one of the most important and most radical theorists writing today. His witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism.

In this new edition of his groundbreaking treatise on literary theory, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism.

Ranging across the key works of Raymond Williams, Lenin, Trostsky, Brecht, Adorno, Benjamin, Lukacs and Sartre, he develops a nuanced critique of traditional...

Language and desire, Terry Eagleton argues, are seen by Shakespeare as a kind of 'surplus' over and above the body, stable and social roles and a...