Literary theory: An introduction

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Written in 1982, this work appeared, as Professor Eagleton explains, at the watershed of two very different decades. It could not anticipate what was to come after, neither could it grasp what had happened in literary theory in the light of where it was to lead.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Introduction
• 1 The Rise of English
• 2 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory
• 3 Structuralism and Semiotics
• 4 Post-Structuralism
• 5 Psychoanalysis
• 6 Political Criticism
• Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index