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Terry Eagleton
A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners
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What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing…
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Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
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One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
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A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture
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‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce’ Karl Marx A brilliant account of Marx and his view of utopia and socialism.
A BRILLIANT AND ELOQUENT GUIDE TO THE ELUSIVE CONCEPT OF IDEOLOGY
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New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why authentic atheism is so very hard to come by
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Takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces…
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece…
A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order
A new account of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture
Without doubt the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and social theory since the 19th century.
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents.
Jayaprakash Paramaguru
How many readers know Terry Eagleton as a creative writer? Ever since the genius started to put his hand on creative writing, faced severe obstruction. This book makes an attempt…
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James Smith
Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice…
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Charles Dickens
As the interminable case of ‘Jarndyce and Jarndyce’ grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance…
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Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. This title includes interviews that cover…
We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we’re asking? This book takes a quirky look at…
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Sheer fun and sadness welling up out of critical intelligence. -Sunday Times Books of the Year
An excellent introduction to the range of Eagleton’s thought and his considerable body of work
A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, form Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida, by Britain’s most stylish critic.
This is a collection of Terry Eagleton’s best criticisms and book reviews. His skill in this field is notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer, Eagleton…
A Marxist study of the Brontes. In this second edition a new introduction has been added.
Ist das Ende der Ideologie nahe? Das Werk bringt Klarheit in die Vielzahl der Ideologiedefinitionen von der Aufklarung bis zur Postmoderne, bei Marx, Engels, Lukacs, Gramsci, Adorno, Althusser und anderen…
Terry Eagleton’s witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. Here…
Describes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously - not so that it can hand the West its legitimation, but so that it can seek to make sense of the…
Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers.
Analyses the major issues that the subject presents, discussing the writing of Marx and Engels themselves and the work of such critics as Plekhanov, Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacs, Goldmann, Caudwell, Benjamin…
This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespearea s major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time.
In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer…
Features a collection of the author’s work for the theatre - St Oscar , The White , the Gold and the Gangrene , Disappearances , and God’s Locusts .
Offers an account of Ireland’s neglected national intellectuals, an extraordinary group, including such figures as Oscar Wilde’s father William Wilde, Charles Lever, Samuel Ferguson, Isaac Butt, Sheridan Le Fanu.
Focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing the debates around it. This book offers a critique of postmodern ‘culturalism’, arguing instead for a more complex…
Providing a comprehensive study of tragedy, this book deals with both theory and practice. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne…
Presenting a wide-ranging and humorous introduction to the English novel, this book distills the essential theories of the novel, covering the works of Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens and…
Presents a wide-ranging and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. This book distils the essentials of the theory of the novel. It covers…
Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to…
A work of literary criticism.
Trouble With Strangers represents a groundbreaking intervention in ethics by one of the world’s most important theoreticians. It is written with Terry Eagleton’s usual wit, panache, and uncanny ability to…
In his introduction, Terry Eagleton traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings cover…
We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty…
For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. This study launches a defence of the reality of evil, drawing on…
