How to Read Literature

How to Read Literature

by Terry Eagleton
How to Read Literature

How to Read Literature

by Terry Eagleton

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Overview

A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300190960
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 05/21/2013
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of Literature, University of Lancaster, UK, and Excellence in English Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame. One of the most influential literary critics in the English-speaking world, he is the author of more than 40 books on literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion, among them his best-selling Literary Theory: An Introduction. He lives in Northern Ireland, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Openings 1

2 Character 45

3 Narrative 80

4 Interpretation 117

5 Value 175

Index 207

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