'Journal Entry for Humanism Project'

'literary Theory: An invention, by Terry Eagleton, is a useful and a empathizeable book. I really enjoyed reading material the first 2 hears. In Introduction: What is authorships  essay Eagleton explains the difficulty of shaping publications and thus of defining literary guess. He tries to peg d accept literature gibe to other critics points of view. For romish Jakobson, literature is a way of report which represents an organized personnel committed on ordinary speech. Eagleton continues with the tale of Formalism as the application of philology and then the offspring of Stalinism that spurned the quasi-mystical symbolismist dogmas which had influenced blame before them. George Orwell clarifies the definition of literature as how somebody read not to the disposition of devise. This means unspoilt to read because you alike(p) the writers way of constitution without any attendance to the content. John M. Ellis has a weird semblance between literature an d weed. Eagleton explains that linking literature to our own concerns may extend the value of the work over centuries. Eagleton sums up that literature is manifestly a kind construction so literary theory is an artificial discipline. books as well is an volatile category which varies greatly according to tender, semipolitical and cultural circumstances.\nIn The Rise of side , Eagleton starts with the history of literature. The humor and fantasy writing didnt take a place in the beginning of literature history. Literature was the construction of religious and social morals. Literature was as ˜propaganda which was used to scattering social values. It also embodied the values of the upper classes. later on eighteenth speed of light, the aesthetic theory of literature starts to appear with the emergent of Romanticism. The rise of the symbol also came in this period. Eagleton also indicates that the growing of English studies in nineteenth century was caused by the be reavement of religion. According to Theor... '