Staff Pick: Back to Uni
As the new academic year begins this month, our staff members have recommend their favourite Yale University Press textbooks for students at university. September’s…
literary theory
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…
‘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…
Clare Cavanagh wins literary award for ‘Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics’
Clare Cavanagh’s illuminating exploration of poetry and national life in Poland and Russia from 1917 onwards has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for…