TY - BOOK AU - Eagleton, T. TI - Literary theory: : an introduction SN - 9780816654475 AV - DUCE PN94.E2 PY - 2008/// CY - United States of America PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Literature N1 - Includes bibliography references and index N2 - This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and off-putting to the outsider. Literary Theory has the kind of racy readability that one associates more often with English critics who have set their faces resolutely against theory. It’s not just a brilliant polemical essay; it’s also a remarkable feat of condensation, explication, and synthesis ER -