Western Literary Theory of the 20th Century

Author: (English) Terry Eagleton, translated by Wu Xiaoming
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book was first published in 1983 and is a monograph by Eagleton that systematically introduces and critiques Western literary theories to the general British readership. The author organizes the complex and diverse revolution of 20th-century Western literary theories, tracing three main developmental lines from Formalism, Structuralism to Post-structuralism, from Phenomenology and Hermeneutics to Reception Aesthetics, as well as Psychoanalytic Theory. He provides an in-depth analysis of their emergence and evolution, as well as their problems and limitations. This book is translated from the second edition of 1996, which includes a lengthy Postscript that summarizes the major changes that have occurred in the field of Western literary theories since the book's first publication 13 years earlier.