Full name: Literary Theory: An Introduction

Author: Terry Eagleton Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780631201885 9780816654475 0631201882 0816654476

Written in 1982, this work appeared, as Professor Eagleton explains, at the watershed of two very different decades. It could not anticipate what was to come after, neither could it grasp what had happened in literary theory in the light of where it was to lead. Similar books: The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said Theory of literature by Rene Wellek After Theory by Terry Eagleton The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth S/Z by Roland Barthes Mimesis by Erich Auerbach A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth The Company We Keep by Wayne C. Booth The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes The Empire Writes Back by Bill Ashcroft Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein The Mirror and the Lamp by M. H. Abrams Sweet Violence by Terry Eagleton Hope without Optimism by Terry Eagleton The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton The Idea of Culture by Terry Eagleton