A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice—close reading. Does literary criticism offer truths about the world? In this book, Jonathan Kramnick explains literary criticism’s distinctive approach to knowledge and its disciplinary rationale by zeroing in on its singular method: close reading. Close reading is the field’s way ...(展开全部)

Without doubt the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and social theory since the 19th century.</P>

Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Ma...(展开全部)

Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Ma...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton has some answers in this wonderfully clear analysis. For this Routledge Classics edition the author has written a challenging new introduction which explains the continuing relevance of this work for the twenty-first century.

在线阅读本书 Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton has some answers in this wonderfully clear analysis. For this Routledge Classics edition the author has written a challenging new introduction which explains the continuing relevance of this work for the twenty-first century.

Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Ma...(展开全部)

Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some answers in this wonderfully clear and readable analysis. Sharp and concise, it is, without doubt, the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Ma...(展开全部)