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Modernism: A Literature in Crisis
An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of growing alienation in an industrial...
The Eagleton Reader
This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.
The Ideology of the Aesthetic
The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western...
How to Read Literature
A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure-"English 101 in a book." (Michael Lindgren, Washington Post) What makes a work of literature good...
The Gatekeeper: A Memoir
A memoir in which our hero blends autobiography with moral, political and cultural reflections. thoughts about god, evil, suffering, death and tragedy are interwoven with comic or moving scenes from...
Why Marx Was Right
One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks."-Dennis O'Brien, Christian Century "[Eagleton is] a...
Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions
Theory has drawn to the study of literature many distinct fields; but it has also now widened its brief substantially to include many hitherto non-literary issues. To interpret the "sign"...