| The Significance of Theory: A Critical History Contributor(s): Eagleton, Terry (Author), Payne, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631172718 ISBN-13: 9780631172710 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1991 Annotation: Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. His writings have had a marked impact too on how these subjects are taught and studied. Always maintaining a clear sense of political goal, his work has ranged widely in subject and in method. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics. It includes a discussion of the nature and function of literary theory today, and in a major new essay on Adorno, offers a glimpse of Eagleton's current work on the contradictory status of art in modern society and the relations between the aesthetic and the political. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| LCCN: 89038730 |
| Series: Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.26" W x 8.45" (0.35 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics. |