The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton

The Function of Criticism

Terry Eagleton

138 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida.This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which p...

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