Eagleton,Terry

HOW TO READ LITERATURE - 1 - London Seagull 2016/01/01 - 216

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 a highly unusual combination of critical theory and analytic philosophy, the author sees all literary work, from novels to poems, as a strategy to contain a reality that seeks to thwart that containment, and in doing so throws up new problems that the work tries to resolve. The 'event of literature, he argues, consists in this continual transformative encounter, unique and endlessly repeatable. Freewheeling through centuries of critical ideas, he sheds light on the place of literature in our culture, and in doing so reaffirms the value and validity of literary thought today.

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Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra


Literature - Philosophy.
Literature- Theory.
Authors and readers.
Literature Criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Literature - Explication.
Literature-Theory, etc

801.95 / EAG/HO