Critical revolutionaries : five critics who changed the way we read

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-2023

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Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature. Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger generation of critics came to the fore. Their work represented a reaction to the impoverishment of language in a commercial, utilitarian society increasingly under the sway of film, advertising, and the popular press. For them, literary criticism was a way of diagnosing social ills and had a vital moral function to perform. Terry Eagleton reflects on the lives and work of T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards, William Empson, F.R. Leavis, and Raymond Williams, and explores a vital tradition of literary criticism that today is in danger of being neglected.