Terry Eagleton on Tragedy as a political institution
‘Sorrow and despair constitute a lingua franca. Yet tragedy in the artistic sense is a highly specific affair.’ In Tragedy, eminent literary critic Terry…
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Five 2014 Paperbacks for your Pocket
Everyone enjoys a good paperback. The fun, cheerful alternative to its stuffy corset-wearing older sister the hardback, a paperback re-issue offers the reader a…
‘How to Read Literature’ by Terry Eagleton. Understanding Openings and ‘A Passage to India’
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black…
Author Video: Terry Eagleton discusses his return to literary theory
In his new book The Event of Literature Terry Eagleton returns to the discipline to which he has devoted his career: literary theory. The book…
From the Bard to the Bible: Books by influential literary critic Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom is one of the world’s preeminent literary critics. Known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his theories of poetic influence, his…