(P/B) AGAINST THE GRAIN

Παρουσίαση

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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
1. Macherey and Marxist Literary Theory
2. Form, Ideology and The Secret Agent
3. Liberality and Order: The Criticism of John Bayley
4. The Idealism of American Criticism
5. Fredric Jameson: The Politics of Style
6. Frere Jacques: The Politics of Deconstruction
7. Marxism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism
8. Wittgenstein's Friends
9. Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
10. The Critic as Clown
11. Brecht and Rhetoric
12. Poetry, Pleasure and Politics
13. The Revolt of the Reader
14. The Ballad of English Literature
Notes
Index