TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eagleton,Terry 
TI  - HOW TO READ LITERATURE
SN  - 9788170463566
U1  - 801.95 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Seagull
KW  - Literature - Philosophy
KW  - Literature- Theory
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - Literature Criticism
KW  - Reader-response criticism
KW  - Literature - Explication
KW  - Literature-Theory, etc
N1  - 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
ER  -