Name: The Event of Literature
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Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780300194135

Type

Physical Book

Author

Terry Eagleton

Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0300194137

ISBN13

9780300194135

Synopsis "The Event of Literature "

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.

Terry Eagleton

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Profesor de Literatura inglesa en la Lancaster University, de Teoría cultural en la National University of Ireland y profesor visitante en la University of Notre Dame. Se doctoró en el Trinity College de Cambridge, fue profesor en el Jesus College, en la Manchester University y en diferentes centros académicos de Oxford. Discípulo de Raymond Williams, Eagleton ha unido los estudios culturales con la teoría literaria, el marxismo y el psicoanálisis.

Ha publicado alrededor de cuarenta libros, entre los que destacan Ideología (1997), La idea de cultura(2001), El portero (2004), La estética como ideología (2006), Terror santo (2008), El sentido de la vida (2008), Sobre el mal (2010), Razón, fe y revolución(2012), y El acontecimiento de la literatura (2013).

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