The event of literature

Аннотация

Literary theory has been rather out of fashion for the last couple of decades, so that books like this one are becoming rare. There are some who will be eternally grateful for this fact, most of whom will not be reading this Preface. It would have been hard to foresee in the 1970s or ’80s that semiotics, post-structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis and the like would become for the most part foreign languages to students thirty years later.