About this title: Noted literary critic Terry Eagleton presents an undergraduate-level overview of his discipline. The first essay, "The Rise of English", places English in a historical context. Other chapters explain such topics as reader-response theories, structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis and literature, and politics and literature.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780631132592ISBN:0631132597
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Description: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1983, softcover, 244p., trade softcover, good condition, foxing inside covers, bump to corner tips. read more
"I especially enjoyed the back-third of this text, which contains Eagleton's exploration of psychoanalitic theory and his exposition of all lit crit as political in nature. There is something about Eagleton's outsider/insider identity--both psychologically and sociologically--that, for me, makes him 1) an utterly fascinating academic and historical person 2) the absolute ideal guide to the sometimes epiphanous, but often pompous, exclusivist, and alchemical universe of literary theory.
Below is one of my favorite paragraphs from the book. It makes many many great points, but one of my favorites is how he brilliantly identifies lit crit as "one place to which the impulses behind high-modernist art have now migrated."
"Theory, partly because of its high-poweredness, esotericism, up-to-dateness, rarity and relative novelty, has achieved high prestige in the academic marketplace, even if it still provokes the virulent hostility of a liberal humanism which fears being ousted by it. Post-structuralism is sexier than Philip Sidney, just as quarks are more alluring than quadrilaterals. Theory has been one symptom in our time of the commodifying of the intellectual life itself, as one conceptual fashion usurps another as shortwindedly as changes in hairstyle. Just as the human body--along with a good deal else--has become aestheticized in our day, so theory has become a kind of minority art-form, playful, self-ironizing and hedonistic, one place to which the impulses behind high-modernist art have now migrated. It has been, among other things, the refuge of a disinherited Western intellect, cut loose by the sheer squalor of modern history from its traditional humanistic bearings, and so at once gullible and sophisticated, streetwise and disorientated. It has too often acted as a modish substitute for political activity, in an age when such activity has been on the whole hard to come by; and having started life as an ambitious critique of our current ways of life, it now threatens to end up as a complacent consecration of them.""
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