Terry Eagleton writes literary criticism, cultural theory and political argument for both students and general readers. Literary Theory: An Introduction explains and critiques major approaches including formalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and Marxist criticism, while How to Read Literature turns to practical questions of form, character, narrative and interpretation. Why Marx Was Right is organised around common objections to Marxism and answers them one by one, and After Theory asks what cultural theory should address after the high point of post-structuralism and related movements. Eagleton's books are argument-led, compressed and often comic, but they assume readers are willing to follow philosophical and political concepts rather than simply collect definitions. Literary Theory: An Introduction remains the main entry for criticism and cultural theory, while How to Read Literature is more practical and Why Marx Was Right moves the same argumentative energy into explicitly political writing. Read more Less
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