Name: The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form
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Author: Terry Eagleton
ISBN: 9780300274295

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The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form

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Physical Book

Author

Terry Eagleton

Publisher

Yale University Press

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780300274295

The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form

Terry Eagleton (Author) · Yale University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form "

A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening its focus to set their experience in context, it can evoke the reader's sympathies as few other forms can. Yet it is also by and large a product of the middle classes: boldly individualist and fascinated by money, property, marriage, and inheritance. Can such realism survive in the postmodern age? Acclaimed critic Terry Eagleton explores realism's complex history, practice, and politics. Spanning several centuries, and including writers such as George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and Iris Murdoch, Eagleton offers a witty, entertaining defence of a form which offers both panoramic scope and individual nuance in an increasingly fragmented world.

Terry Eagleton

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Profesor de Literatura inglesa en la Lancaster University, de Teoría cultural en la National University of Ireland y profesor visitante en la University of Notre Dame. Se doctoró en el Trinity College de Cambridge, fue profesor en el Jesus College, en la Manchester University y en diferentes centros académicos de Oxford. Discípulo de Raymond Williams, Eagleton ha unido los estudios culturales con la teoría literaria, el marxismo y el psicoanálisis.

Ha publicado alrededor de cuarenta libros, entre los que destacan Ideología (1997), La idea de cultura(2001), El portero (2004), La estética como ideología (2006), Terror santo (2008), El sentido de la vida (2008), Sobre el mal (2010), Razón, fe y revolución(2012), y El acontecimiento de la literatura (2013).

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