Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day.
Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce.
Distils the essentials of the theory of the novel.
Follows the model of...
Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel...
This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this fragile culture brought on a crisis in criticism, whose history since the 18th century has been fraught with ambivalence and anxiety. Eagleton's account embraces Addison and Steele, Johnson and the 19-century reviewers, such critics as Arnold and Stephen, the heyday of Scrutiny and New Criticism, and finally the proliferation of...
This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical,...
Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontes, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer Terry Eagleton s achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and the theses of a book, Eagleton, in his inimitable and often wickedly funny style, always paints a vivid theoretical and political fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.
In this collection of more than a decade of such...
Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontes, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer Ter...
This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and Gods Locusts. The first two originally toured Ireland respectively in productions by Field Day of Derry and Dubbeljoint of Belfast. God's Locusts was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and
In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethics. Providing rare insights into tragedy, politics, literature, morality and religion, Eagleton examines key ethical theories through the framework of Jacques Lacan's categories of the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real, measuring them against the 'richer' ethical resources of socialism and the Judaeo-Christian tradition.
a major new book from Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists
investigates ethical...
In this major new book, Terry Eagleton, one of the world's greatest cultural theorists, writes with wit, eloquence and clarity on the question of ethi...
Helps readers understand what literature is and what it is for. This book offers the synopses of the major movements in literary studies in the twentieth century.
Helps readers understand what literature is and what it is for. This book offers the synopses of the major movements in literary studies in the twenti...
In 1916, in a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland, an unlikely collection of fugitives gathers. Ludwig Wittgenstein has run away from Cambridge and English insularity. His traveling companion, Nikolai Bakhtin (brother of the Marxist aesthetician), has been through the gamut of revolutionary sects and is now devoting himself to gluttony. Into their retreat stumble James Connolly, now on the run from the British government, and Leopold Bloom, fleeing "Ulysses" and his broken marriage. Being men of ideas, they begin to talk. And then, being men of principles, they begin to argue ...
In 1916, in a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland, an unlikely collection of fugitives gathers. Ludwig Wittgenstein has run away from Cambridg...
Ist das "Ende der Ideologie" nahe? Das Werk bringt Klarheit in die Vielzahl der Ideologiedefinitionen von der Aufklarung bis zur Postmoderne, bei Marx, Engels, Lukacs, Gramsci, Adorno, Althusser und anderen. Witzig, geistreich, auerordentlich informativ und mit spitzer Feder geschrieben.
Ist das "Ende der Ideologie" nahe? Das Werk bringt Klarheit in die Vielzahl der Ideologiedefinitionen von der Aufklarung bis zur Postmoderne, bei Marx...
"Kultur" ist in aller Munde. Aber was ist Kultur? Eine Magazin-Rubrik oder die "Einheit des künstlerischen Stils eines Volkes" (F. Nietzsche); "erlesenes Getue" (L. Marcuse) oder ganz einfach eine "künstlich erzeugte Illusion" (W. B. Yeats)? Dieses Buch führt ein in die unterschiedlichen Aspekte, was uns Kultur bedeutet, was wir mit Kultur anderen bedeuten wollen, und welchen Unterschied es macht, von der Kultur einen Blick auf andere Kulturen zu werfen. Es gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte des Begriffs, diskutiert die Gründe für die aktuelle Überbetonung und versucht einen...
"Kultur" ist in aller Munde. Aber was ist Kultur? Eine Magazin-Rubrik oder die "Einheit des künstlerischen Stils eines Volkes" (F. Nietzsche); "erles...
Was ist Literatur?, fragt das mittlerweile legendare Einleitungskapitel dieses Bandes. Pointiert und kritisch-souveran zugleich fuhrt Eagleton an erste literaturtheoretische Fragen heran. Ebenso anschaulich erlautert der Autor in den weiteren Kapiteln die Grundlagen und Methoden der zentralen Ansatze der Literaturtheorie. Die 5. Auflage des erfolgreichen Buches enthalt ein neues Vorwort Eagletons zur literaturtheoretischen Entwicklung der letzten 25 Jahre. Fur die Annaherung an einen komplexen Stoff ohne Scheu und Verstandnisschwierigkeiten.
Was ist Literatur?, fragt das mittlerweile legendare Einleitungskapitel dieses Bandes. Pointiert und kritisch-souveran zugleich fuhrt Eagleton an erst...
