The Eagleton Reader - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 063120248X ISBN 13 : 9780631202486

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 1997

Synopsis

The Eagleton Reader This reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career. Full description

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In The Eagleton Reader, Stephen Regan presents a lively and judicious selection of Terry Eagleton′s essays, lectures and reviews, demonstrating the breadth and incisiveness of Eagleton′s critical judgements, his playful, ironic intelligence, and his provocative intervention in the cultural debates of the past thirty years. This Reader is a valuable introduction to Eagleton′s stimulating and entertaining work on modernism and postmodernism, nationalism and colonialism, aesthetics and ideology, cultural politics and sexual politics.

Eagleton′s brilliance as a literary critic is evident in essays on William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde and Milan Kundera, while his more ruminative theoretical and philosophical writings are amply demonstrated in essays on Raymond Williams, Walter Benjamin, Arthur Schopenhauer and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Reader includes a prefatory survey of its subject′s career, extensive introductions to each of the six sections of essays, and a comprehensive bibliography of writings by and about Terry Eagleton.

Revue de presse :

"Every student of English will be thankful to Regan for assembling this Reader. Useful essays frame each section and the collection as a whole serves as a splendid introduction to Eagleton′s work. His delightful wit and debunking similes make reading him fun, as well as necessary."
Gary Day, Times Higher Education Supplement "As this anthology makes clear, Eagleton′s work has been held together for nearly 20 years by a startling proposal for the reform of the academic syllabus."
"If the humanities are to be rescued from their current state of over–specialised torpor, then Eagleton′s work will be one of the main sources to which the reformers will turn." Morning Star

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 063120248X
• ISBN 13: 9780631202486
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 472