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These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton’s continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences.Eagleton’s combative intelligence here explores the encounter between Marxism and contemporary European and American literary theory. Included are a survey of the Althusserian contribution to literary analysis; thoughts on the fraught relations between Marxism and poststructuralism; and a brilliant evocation of the affinities and tensions between Wittgenstein, Derrida and Bakhtin.Intellectual figures in this wide-ranging topography include Jacques Derrida; the radical critic Fredric Jameson; the apostle of deconstruction, Paul de Man; the liberal humanist John Bayley; Bertoit Brecht; William Empson and Pierre Machersy. The volume also includes Eagleton’s brilliant reading of Conrad’s The Secret Agent.Against the Grain is an excellent introduction to the range of Terry Eagleton’s thought and his considerable body of work. It is also a useful primer for all readers interested in the vitality of literary theory today.

Part of "Radical Thinkers" series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers.

Part of the "Revolutions" series, this volume presents Jesus Christ as a figure akin to revolutionaries like Robespierre, Marx, and Che Guevara.

Terry Eagleton's witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. Here, Eagleton seeks to develop a sophisticated relationship between Marxism and literary criticism.

This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a ¿public sphere¿ in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this fragile culture brought on a crisis in criticism, whose history since the 18th century has been fraught with ambivalence and anxiety.Eagleton’s account embraces Addison and Steele, Johnson and the 19-century reviewers, such critics as Arnold and Stephen, the heyday of Scrutiny and New Criticism, and finally the proliferation of avant-garde literary theories such as deconstructionism. The Function of Criticism is nothing less than a history and critique of the ¿critical institution¿ itself. Eagleton’s judgements on individual critics are sharp and illuminating, which his general argument raises crucial questions about the relations between language, literature and politics.

`...a valuable book for anyone wanting to move beyond critical pieties to an understanding of the relation between the Brontes' work and their society.

These three essays each deal with a different aspect of nationalism and the role of cultural production as a force in understanding the aftermath of colonization. Focusing particularly on the contribution of Yeats, they offer an analysis of political and cultural issues in present-day Ireland.