
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.’…
‘Sorrow and despair constitute a lingua franca. Yet tragedy in the artistic sense is a highly specific affair.’…
What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a…
In his new book The Event of Literature Terry Eagleton returns to the discipline to which he has devoted…
Clare Cavanagh’s illuminating exploration of poetry and national life in Poland and Russia from 1917 onwards has won the…