The Eagleton Reader
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publish date: 02/01/1998
Description:
The Eagleton Reader presents a lively and judicious selection of essays, lectures and reviews, demonstrating the breadth and incisiveness of Eagleton's critical judgments, ironic intelligence, and his provocative intervention in the cultural debates of the past 30 years. This reader a valuable introduction to Eagleton's stimulating and entertaining work on modernism and postmodernism, nationalism and colonialism, aesthetics and ideology, cultural politics and sexual politics.
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It includes Eagleton's essays on William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde and Milan Kundera, as well as his more ruminative theoretical and Raymond Williams, Walter Benjamin, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Reader includes a survey of Eagleton's career, extensive introductions to each of the six sections of essays, and a comprehensive bibliography of writings by and about Terry Eagleton.
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