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  <title><![CDATA[Literary Theory: An Introduction]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book expecting to learn a little bit about each major school of literary theory, and I wasn't disappointed.  The book is a much easier read than some of the authors it references, and (I hope) may be useful in understanding those authors.<br/><br/>Eagleton says he would prefer to ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46705489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton's &quot;Literary Theory&quot; has been a most useful book to me. It has helped me make sense of a variety of theories--including the opacity of post-structuralism, the fertile ground where Jacques Derrida and deconstruction reign. And since he concludes that literature has a political...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65463065">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I especially enjoyed the back-third of this text, which contains Eagleton's exploration of psychoanalitic theory and his exposition of all lit crit as political in nature.   There is something about Eagleton's outsider/insider identity--both psychologically and sociologically--that, for me, makes hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59187617">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a much harder read than I anticipated, both in the way it was structured, with chapters for multiple movements and just in the way the ideas were expressed. Often the theory was described in terms of its philosophy and the way one would apply it to literature was barely mentioned. But, all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55893442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did in fact enjoy reading Literary Theory: An Introduction. I was in such great in need for a book which introduces me to the field of literary theory and it was this precise one written by Eagleton. The basic things I've enjoyed in this book and which  basically drew my attention are the followin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77220163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An influential book when if first appeared in 1983 because it mapped out how and why to attack the so called “Literary Canon.” His most basic argument is that as literature replaced religion as a bearer of values it began to be used as a form of social power. The canon was a means to keep one gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20409930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you only read one book about literary theory...well, who would blame you? Still, the educated layperson who wants to bump their understanding of contemporary literary criticism up to a respectable cocktail party level probably can't do much better than Eagleton's slim, thoroughly accessible intro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1280858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[terry eagleton does exactly what he says he is going to do in the title of this book: he gives us an introduction to literary theory. is it oversimplified at times? yes. is it redundant at times? yes. is it useful to flip through when you are panicking because your professor wants you to explain the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15414737">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent overview of the development of literary theory, as well as a critique of theory in general in favor more of a &quot;cultural studies&quot; approach.  Very helpful in putting together various critical approaches I have seen talked about but needed more background about in order to more f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58790737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a compendium of literary theory, I really enjoyed this. I found Eagleton's explanations to be accessible and thorough.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good and concise introduction to the various schools of  literary theory.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very useful and almost comically Marxist.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the only place where you'll get theory and humor in the same book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Useful survey, well-written, easy to follow.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A true must-have for anyone interested in Literary Theory.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eagleton’s book is a very good introduction commenting in commonsense language on the major critical theories of the twentieth century (structuralism, formalism, phenomenology, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism and Marxism).  Although Eagleton himself is a Marxist critic, his commentary is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17674309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[terry eagleton explains complex systems of literary analysis as though it were as easy as a DIY project.  he also manages to illustrate the core principles of the theoretical structure while trying to make resonante in humanistic tones.  definitely a great overview book for the beginner as well as g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/168556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eagleton's discussion of Heidegger is pretty good. The discussion of Derrida was so-so. He, like others, seems not to be able to talk about Derrida's ideas without using Derrida language. Terry,if I don't know what &quot;trace&quot; means when Derrida says it, I'm not going to know what it means whe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5605456">more...</a>]]></body>
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