The Significance of Theory by Terry Eagleton
This book reflects the breadth of Terry Eagleton's interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics. It includes a discussion of the nature and function of literary theory today.
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology; The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from Verso. Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009). He has edited or co-edited several collections of essays: As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century; The Railway and Modernity: Time, Space, and the Machine Ensemble; Adventures in Realism; and Restless Cities. He is currently writing a book about nightwalking in cities, Midnight Streets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631172697 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631172696 |
| Title | The Significance of Theory |
| Author | Terry Eagleton |
| Series | Bucknell Lectures In Literary Theory |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1989-12-07 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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