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1. This is the first volume on Raymond Williams who died in January 1988. Raymond Williams was one of the leading intellectuals of post-war Britain and has a world-wide reputation.2. The contributors to the volume are well-known and include Terry Eagleton, Francis Mulhern, Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Lisa Jardine and Bernard Sharratt.

Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.

An intelligent, witty and refreshingly approachable guide to the ultimate question. Ties in philosophy and literature, from the 12th century scholastics to Marx, Sartre, Beckett and Schopenhauer.

Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture and politics.

Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and ...

Scholars and Rebels" must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century.

Der Autor bietet seltene Einblicke in Tragödie, Politik, Literatur, Moral und Religion unter dem Eindruck von Jacques Lacans Betrachtungsfeldern des Imaginären, des Symbolischen und des Wirklichen und stellt diese den ethischen Prinzipien des Sozialismus und der jüdisch-christlichen Tradition gegenüber.

Terry Eagleton's "Tragedy "provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most controversial, cultural theorists. Provides an analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the ancient world to the present day. Explores the idea of the 'tragic' acr...

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, "How To Read A Poem" is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closes analysis....

Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading Marxism, literature, theory, and the social possibilities of writing.

Scholars and Rebels" must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century.

This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously detailed readings, the book illuminates a number of persistent problems or conflicts in Shakespearean drama - in particular a contradiction between words and things, body and language, which is also explored in terms of law, sexuality and Nature.

This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - "St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, " and "Gods Locusts." The first two originally toured Ireland respectively in productions by Field Day of Derry and Dubbeljoint of Belfast. "God's Locusts" was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

In this brilliant new critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. His primary concern is less with the more intricate formulations of postmodern philosophy than with the culture or milieu of postmodernism as a whole. Above all, he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.