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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814651303321

Autore

Eagleton Terry <1943->

Titolo

Literary theory : an introduction / / Terry Eagleton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

9781118306291

1118306295

Edizione

[Anniversary ed., 2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 234 p

Classificazione

LIT006000

Disciplina

801/.950904

Soggetti

Criticism - History - 20th century

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Anniversary Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Introduction: What is Literature? -- 1: The Rise of English -- 2: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory -- 3: Structuralism and Semiotics -- 4: Post-Structuralism -- 5: Psychoanalysis -- Conclusion: Political Criticism -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include How to Read a Poem (2006), The English Novel (2004), Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Blackwell Publishing.