The Event of Literature [Audiobook] download free by Terry Eagleton
- Listen audiobook: The Event of Literature
- Author: Terry Eagleton
- Release date: 2012/12/5
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780300178814
- Rating: 8.56 of 10
- Votes: 142
- Review by: Ayaan Colson
- Review rating: 8.07 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/12
- Duration: 3H12M31S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 ALS, WAV, AIFF, MPEG4, OGG, FLAC, MP3, WMA (compression CBZ, RAR, LZ, ARJ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 19M (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of 'literature' at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers a new theory of what we mean by literature. He also shows what it is that a great many different literary theories have in common. In a highly unusual combination of critical theory and analytic philosophy, the author sees all literary work, from novels to poems, as a strategy to contain a reality that seeks to thwart that containment, and in doing so throws up new problems that the work tries to resolve. The 'event' of literature, Eagleton argues, consists in this continual transformative encounter, unique and endlessly repeatable. Freewheeling through centuries of critical ideas, he sheds light on the place of literature in our culture, and in doing so reaffirms the value and validity of literary thought today.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy: Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Literary Studies: General
- Download servers: X Cloud, Uptobox, MEGA, Hotfile, Mediafire, FreakShare, Memopal, Dropbox, BitShare. Compressed in CBZ, RAR, LZ, ARJ, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 27.24 USD
- Dimensions: 140x210x23.88mm
- Weight: 430.91g
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- Published in: New Haven, CT, United States
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