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Book Synopsis Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America written by Terry Eagleton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent trip through American culture by a critic who “cracks jokes as easily as one would crack walnut shells” (Washington Post). Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as “aggressive,” use superlatives to describe everything from one’s pet dog to one’s rock collection, or speak frequently of being “empowered.” Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children’s school grades with bumper stickers announcing “My Child Made the Honor Roll”? Why don’t we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, even when all signs point to failure? On his quirky journey through the language, geography, and national character of the United States, Eagleton proves to be at once an informal and utterly idiosyncratic guide to our peculiar race. He answers the questions his compatriots have always had but (being British) dare not ask, like why Americans willingly rise at the crack of dawn, even on Sundays, or why we publicly chastise cigarette smokers as if we’re all spokespeople for the surgeon general. In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbors “across the pond.”
Book Synopsis Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America written by Terry Eagleton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native Briton describes America and its citizens through his English eyes, humorously questioning their choices in bumper stickers, use of adjectives and superlatives, and their overall lack of appreciation for the teapot.
Download or read book Ideology written by Terry Eagleton and published by Verso. This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘His thought is redneck, yours is doctrinal and mine is deliciously supple.’ Ideology has never been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. From the left it can often be seen as the exclusive property of ruling classes, and from the right as an arid and totalizing exception to their own common sense. For some, the concept now seems too ubiquitous to be meaningful; for others, too cohesive for a world of infinite difference. Here, in a book written for both newcomers to the topic and those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different definitions of ideology, and explores the concept’s tortuous history from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Ideology provides lucid interpretations of the thought of key Marxist thinkers and of others such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud and the various poststructuralists. As well as clarifying a notoriously confused topic, this new work by one of our most important contemporary critics is a controversial political intervention into current theoretical debates. It will be essential reading for students and teachers of literature and politics.
Download or read book Cheers, America written by Justin Webb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An editor at BBC-TV takes a witty and honest look at the “special” relationship between the US and the UK. IMAGINE INVITING A BRIT TO A BARBECUE - THAT’S THIS BOOK. Justin Webb was the BBC’s man in America. He covered politics and interviewed presidents, but more importantly he reported, as Alistair Cooke once did, on the rich tapestry of American life. This is his toast to a country he called home for the best part of a decade. Webb’s America is a place of possibility and promise. He is scornful of those who think the nation is in decline, and posits an exciting new diplomatic era in which America diversifies its international relationships. Cheers, America will make you smile. Its wry and heartfelt observations provide a redeeming vision of our country at a time when it is redefining its identity.
Book Synopsis The Truth About the Irish by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book The Truth About the Irish written by Terry Eagleton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a humorous look at the myths, idiosyncracies, and culture of the Irish people.
Book Synopsis Heathcliff and the Great Hunger by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book Heathcliff and the Great Hunger written by Terry Eagleton and published by Verso. This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature. It discusses a host of unusual topics, from Shaw and science and Irish attitudes, to nature and the question of language, and a full-scale investigation of the Celtic revival.
Download or read book Walter Benjamin written by Terry Eagleton and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-11-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.
Book Synopsis The Body as Language by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book The Body as Language written by Terry Eagleton and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1970 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saint Oscar written by Terry Eagleton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provoked by Eagleton's astonishment that his own Oxford,students appeared not to know that Wilde was Irish,and refined as it toured Ireland during the height of the,Troubles, Saint Oscar combines sexual, national and,class politics with an irresistible humour.
Download or read book Myths of Power written by T. Eagleton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths of Power - Anniversary Edition sets out to interpret the fiction of the Brontë sisters in light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not merely to relate literary facts, but by a close critical examination of the novels, to find in them a significant structure of ideas and values which related to the Brontës' ambiguous situation within the class-system of their society. Its intention is to forge close relations between the novels, nineteenth-century ideology, and historical forces, in order to illuminate the novels themselves in a radically new perspective. When originally published in 1975 (second edition in 1988), it was the first full-length Marxist study of the Brontës and is now reissued to celebrate 30 years since its first publication. It includes a new Introduction by Terry Eagleton which reflects on the changes which have happened in Marxist literary criticism since 1988, and situates this reissue of the second edition in current debates.
Book Synopsis How to Read Literature Like a Professor by : Thomas C. Foster
Download or read book How to Read Literature Like a Professor written by Thomas C. Foster and published by Harper. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codesof the ultimate professional reader, the college professor. What does it mean when a literary hero is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature—a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower—and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun. This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade.
Book Synopsis How to Read Literature by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book How to Read Literature written by Terry Eagleton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure /div
Book Synopsis Figures of Dissent by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book Figures of Dissent written by Terry Eagleton and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Terry Eagleton's best criticisms and book reviews. His skill in this field is notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer, Eagleton, in his inimitable style, always paints a vivid theoretical fresco as the background to his engagement with the texts.
Book Synopsis The Idea of Culture by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book The Idea of Culture written by Terry Eagleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.
Book Synopsis Why America Must Not Follow Europe by : Daniel Hannan
Download or read book Why America Must Not Follow Europe written by Daniel Hannan and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament, calls on Americans to avoid Europe's future. He traces the common roots of British and American liberty, and describes how both countries are losing their inheritance as government crowds out the private sphere. He calls for a renewed commitment to the Anglosphere: the alliance of free, English-speaking nations which has preserved freedom in our time.
Book Synopsis Marxism and Literary Criticism by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book Marxism and Literary Criticism written by Terry Eagleton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-08-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R. Jameson "Terry Eagleton is that rare bird among literary critics--a real writer."--Colin McCabe, The Guardian
Book Synopsis Those Damned Rebels by : Michael Pearson
Download or read book Those Damned Rebels written by Michael Pearson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-creation of the American Revolution from the British point of view --and a dramatically different picture of the birth of our nation.
