"Twentieth Century Western Literary Theory", translated by Wu Xiaoming, written by Trey Eagleton of the UK. Eagleton is a famous British Marxist literary theorist and critic, and is generally regarded as the latest representative of Western Marxist literary criticism in the British and American literary circles. "Western Literary Theory in the Twentieth Century" was published in 1983. It is a monograph by Eagleton that systematically introduces and criticizes Western literary theory in the twentieth century to ordinary British readers. The table of contents of this book is: preface, introduction, 1. The rise of British literature, 2. Phenomenology, hermeneutics, reception theory, 3. Structuralism and semiotics, 4. Poststructuralism, 5. Psychoanalysis, conclusion: political criticism, bibliography, comparison table of Chinese and foreign names, and postscript to the translation.
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