Literary Theory

An Introduction
2. Revised Auflage, Anniversary Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7921-8
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies, including what he describes as “the growth of a kind of anti-theory”, and the idea that literary theory has been institutionalized. Insightful and enlightening, Literary Theory: An Introduction remains the essential guide to the field.


- 25th Anniversary Edition of Terry Eagleton’s classic introduction to literary theory

- First published in 1983, and revised in 1996 to include material on developments in feminist and cultural theory

- Has served as an inspiration to generations of students and teachers

- Continues to function as arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on literary theory

- Reissue includes a new foreword by Eagleton himself, reflecting on the impact and enduring success of the book, and on developments in literary theory since it was first published

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eagleton, Terry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Anniversary Edition.
Preface to the Second Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.