TY  - GEN
T1  - The event of literature
A1  - Eagleton, Terry, 1943-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn793207336
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 252
CN  - PN45 .E24 2012eb
SN  - 9780300182590
SN  - 0300182597
SN  - 9780300178814
SN  - 0300178816
SN  - 9781280571312
SN  - 1280571314
SN  - 9780300194135
KW  - Literature : Philosophy.
KW  - Criticism.
KW  - Literature : History and criticism : Theory, etc.
KW  - Critique.
KW  - Littérature : Histoire et critique : Théorie, etc.
KW  - criticism.
KW  - literary criticism.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Books & Reading.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Aesthetics.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Semiotics & Theory.
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Literature : Philosophy
KW  - Literature : Theory, etc.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -