Questions and Answers for Literary Theory
Literary Theory
In "Introduction: What is Literature?" from his book Literary Theory: An Introduction, Eagleton gives his point of...
In this introduction, Eagleton sets out to describe what literature is prior to defining what literary theory is. Since literature is literary theory's object of study, it would make sense to pin...
Literary Theory
Why is irony used in novels? What are the effects?
There are several different types of irony, and authors may employ them for different reasons. Verbal irony refers to the use of a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its usual meaning, and it...
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How to understand the idea that "literature is an ideology" proposed by Eagleton in Literary Theory?
In his important 1983 book Literary Theory, Eagleton argued that literature and literary criticism is political but pretends not to be. Ideology, in Marxist terms, (and Eagleton at the time was a...