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Figures of dissent : critical essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and others / Terry Eagleton.
Van Pelt Library PR6055.A44 F54 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eagleton, Terry, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--Reviews.
- Books.
- Criticism--Great Britain.
- Criticism.
- Great Britain.
- Fish, Stanley Eugene.
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.
- Žižek, Slavoj.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 272 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2003.
- Summary:
- Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontes, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer... Terry Eagleton's achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularly notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and the theses of a book, Eagleton, in his inimitable and often wickedly funny style, always paints a vivid theoretical and political fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts. In this collection of more than a decade of such bracing criticism, Eagleton comes face to face with Guardian Stanley Fish, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, Edward Said, and even David Beckham. All are subjected to his pugnacious wit, scathing critical pen, and brilliant literary investigations. Eagleton has confirmed his standing as second to none among cultural critics writing in the English language today.
- Contents:
- Postmodern savages
- Last words
- The nature of Gothic
- Utopias 1
- Utopias 2
- Romantic poets
- Branwell Brontë
- Oscar Wilde
- W.B. Yeats
- I.A. Richards
- The Frankfurt School
- T.S. Eliot
- Georg Lukács
- Northrop Frye
- Isaiah Berlin and Richard Hoggart
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Norberto Bobbio
- Jonathan Dollimore
- Peter Brooks on bodies
- Peter Brooks on confession
- Peter Conrad
- Paul de Man
- Gayatri Spivak
- Harold Bloom
- Stanley Fish
- George Steiner
- Steven Lukes
- David Harvey
- Slavoj Žižek
- Stuart Hall
- Peter Ackroyd
- Seamus Heaney
- Roy Foster
- Alan Ayckbourn and Dario Fo
- Nick Groom
- Alain Badiou
- Colin MacCabe and John Springhall
- Iris Murdoch
- James Kelman
- David Beckham
- Roy Strong.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 185984667X
- OCLC:
- 51839699
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