Terry Eagleton
British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual known for Marxist literary criticism and for works such as Literary Theory: An Introduction.
Books
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1. Como Ler Literatura
Um guia claro e bem‑humorado que ensina técnicas de leitura literária e mostra como interpretar gêneros, dispositivos narrativos e simbolismo, relacionando textos às suas condições históricas e ideológicas; combina exemplos práticos, teoria crítica acessível e reflexão sobre o prazer estético e a função social da literatura para ajudar o leitor a perceber tanto a riqueza formal quanto as implicações políticas dos textos.
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2. Humor
A concise, provocative study that traces theories of laughter from classical superiority models through relief and incongruity accounts, arguing that humor is ambivalent—both socially bonding and potentially aggressive or conservative—and shaped by class, ideology and cultural formations; drawing on literary, philosophical and popular examples, it examines how satire, irony and comic forms expose social contradictions while often deflecting political action, and shows how taste, offense and power relations determine what counts as funny.
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