ISBN:
0631219668
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (268 KB, 168 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Series Statement:
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
Parallel Title:
Print version The Idea of Culture
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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. Terry Eagletonis Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His numerous works include The Illusions of Postmodernism(1996),Literary Theory: An Introduction(second edition , 1996),The Ideology of the Aesthetic(1990) and Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth Century Ireland(1999), all published by Blackwell, as are his dramatic writings, St Oscar and Other Plays (1997), and the Eagleton Reader (1997) edited by Stephen Regan. Terry Eagleton is co-editor (with Stephen Regan) of The Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory, forthcoming in 2001.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; 1 Versions of Culture; 2 Culture in Crisis; 3 Culture Wars; 4 Culture and Nature; 5 Towards a Common Culture; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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