The event of literature /
Eagleton, Terry, 1943-
The event of literature / Terry Eagleton. - 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Realists and nominalists -- What is literature? (1) -- What is literature? (2) -- The nature of fiction -- Strategies.
"In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers a new theory of what we mean by literature. He also shows what it is that a great many different literary theories have in common. In a highly unusual combination of critical theory and analytic philosophy, the author sees all literary work, from novels to poems, as a strategy to contain a reality that seeks to thwart that containment, and in doing so throws up new problems that the work tries to resolve. The "event" of literature, Eagleton argues, consists in this continual transformative encounter, unique and endlessly repeatable. Freewheeling through centuries of critical ideas, he sheds light on the place of literature in our culture, and in doing so reaffirms the value and validity of literary thought today"--
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2012000109
Literature--Philosophy.
Criticism.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Critique.
Littérature--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.
criticism.
literary criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Books & Reading.
PHILOSOPHY--Aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism.
Literature--Philosophy.
Literature--Theory, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN45 / .E24 2012eb
801/.9
The event of literature / Terry Eagleton. - 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Realists and nominalists -- What is literature? (1) -- What is literature? (2) -- The nature of fiction -- Strategies.
"In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers a new theory of what we mean by literature. He also shows what it is that a great many different literary theories have in common. In a highly unusual combination of critical theory and analytic philosophy, the author sees all literary work, from novels to poems, as a strategy to contain a reality that seeks to thwart that containment, and in doing so throws up new problems that the work tries to resolve. The "event" of literature, Eagleton argues, consists in this continual transformative encounter, unique and endlessly repeatable. Freewheeling through centuries of critical ideas, he sheds light on the place of literature in our culture, and in doing so reaffirms the value and validity of literary thought today"--
9780300182590 (electronic bk.) 0300182597 (electronic bk.)
360091 MIL 22573/ctt111pjr JSTOR 5EF076BC-510C-4E2A-9365-092B83738AEF OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2012000109
Literature--Philosophy.
Criticism.
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Critique.
Littérature--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.
criticism.
literary criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Books & Reading.
PHILOSOPHY--Aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism.
Literature--Philosophy.
Literature--Theory, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN45 / .E24 2012eb
801/.9