This classic work covers all of the major movements in literary studies in this century. Noted for its clear, engaging style and unpretentious treatment, Literary Theory has become the introduction of choice for anyone interested in learning about the world of contemporary literary thought.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Literary Theory’s debut, Terry Eagleton reflects on t...
This classic work covers all of the major movements in literary studies in this century. Noted for its clear, engaging style and unpretentious treatment, Literary Theory has become the introduction of choice for anyone interested in learning about the world of contemporary literary thought.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Literary Theory’s debut, Terry Eagleton reflects on the state of theory in academia today, the growth of antitheory (itself an interesting theoretical subject), its common—if problematic—place among survey coursework, and theory’s continued relevance to scholarly pursuits. In this contemporary, retrospective moment, as scholars critically analyze the incredibly broad impact of the theoretical movement, Literary Theory remains an essential initiation to the intellectually stimulating world of theoretical analysis.
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. He has co-edited with Drew Milne Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader(1996). His numerous other books include Heathcliff and the Great Hunger(1995), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), William Shakespeare (1986), Walter Benjamin (1981), Criticism and Ideology (1976), and Marx...
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. He has co-edited with Drew Milne Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader(1996). His numerous other books include Heathcliff and the Great Hunger(1995), The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), William Shakespeare (1986), Walter Benjamin (1981), Criticism and Ideology (1976), and Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976).
To complicate matters even further, there is no fixed distinction between signifiers and signifieds either. If you want to know the meaning (or signified) of a signifier, you can look it up in the dictionary; but all you will find will be yet more signifiers, whose signifieds you can in turn look up, and so . on. The process we are discussing is not only in theory infinite but somehow circular: signifiers keep transforming into signifieds and vice versa, and you will never arrive at a final signified which is not a signifier in itself. If structuralism divided the sign from the referent, this kind of thinking often known as 'post-structuralism' goes a step further: it divides the signifier from the signified.
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Another way of putting what we have just said is that meaning is not immediately present in a sign. Since the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is not, its meaning is always in some sense absent from it too. Meaning, if you like, is scattered or dispersed along the whole chain of signifiers: it cannot be easily nailed down, it is never fully present in anyone sign alone, but is rather a kind of constant flickering of presence and absence together. (页码111). (查看原文)
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1 有用 野次馬 2013-05-17 16:25:30
赶在过期前读掉。笔记下次补。Fort-da之后10页跟丢了T T 除开满嘴的意识形态以外各种拨云见日，尤其是Structuralism和RR两块，对理想读者的评析真是一针见血。最见Marxism特色之处莫过于首尾两章，可恨的是事先加上反Rebuttal机制让人反驳不能……|||
1 有用 JZS 2021-11-12 20:34:14
只是随便看了两页，然后就三天疯狂翻完，可以说是人生阅读体验的高峰了。有人说这是马克思主义，但是这本书提出的问题都是非常直觉，也就是本质的问题：“我为什么要读文学？为什么要理解文学？为什么要理解那些乱七八糟的理论？”很简单，理论就是文学，就是意识形态在想象界的产出，le fort-da，作家、哲学家，都是有疾病的人，残缺的人，如果有一颗聪慧的大脑，不如不要让自己卷进这个泥潭
0 有用 PT同学 2013-09-06 20:22:27
开头讨论“什么是文学”好精彩
1 有用 Klavier Cat 2009-12-11 12:39:18
俺的文学理论课的课本~ 很Marxist...
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0 有用 Ιάννης Ξενάκης 2024-05-22 21:34:22 广东
出色的入门书
0 有用 过时的理想主义 2024-04-29 12:58:28 辽宁
战斗力爆表的毒舌马克思迷弟。 说话太刻薄啦。 一针见血的观点夹杂马克思意识形态的狂热输出。
0 有用 森木三 2024-02-10 00:50:20 加拿大
救大命了
0 有用 λάμδα Δίγαμμα 2024-01-24 00:15:46 云南
洋洋洒洒。最后的Political Criticism是他真正想要表达的东西——带着这种Marxist的抱负，Eagleton对于许多「romanticism」的流派嗤之以鼻，不乏犀利、锐气的讽刺挖苦。然而，我认为正是这样才使得其作为一本极为优秀的「Introduction」——正是这样饱含自己明确观点的作品，才得以有效敞开一个领域激发人们的思考（而不是像某种类似知识点罗列的美式学院教材那样）。因... 洋洋洒洒。最后的Political Criticism是他真正想要表达的东西——带着这种Marxist的抱负，Eagleton对于许多「romanticism」的流派嗤之以鼻，不乏犀利、锐气的讽刺挖苦。然而，我认为正是这样才使得其作为一本极为优秀的「Introduction」——正是这样饱含自己明确观点的作品，才得以有效敞开一个领域激发人们的思考（而不是像某种类似知识点罗列的美式学院教材那样）。因此，就算是不同意他作为Marxist的根本观点，也会认为他的意见是富有启发性的——至少摆脱了那种「对错二分」的思维。从这一点上来说，这本书是「言行一致」的：它真正能够打破人们的「pre-linguistic illusion」。 (展开)
0 有用 Cass Phang 2023-12-11 10:43:12 美国
有些intro上过基础课很久之后还是能经得起反复阅读的。