Literary Theory: An Introduction
by Terry Eagleton · Terry Eagleton
A polemical survey of twentieth-century criticism, moving from Russian Formalism and structuralism through psychoanalysis, feminism and post-structuralism. Readers finish able to place each school's assumptions about meaning and to question what counts as literature at all.
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