Eagleton’s famous book is a lucid and polemical survey of most of the main currents in 20th century literary theory, including formalism, new criticism, phenomenology, reception theory, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis. (Marxist theory and feminism aren’t covered in the main text, for reasons discussed in the afterword.) This is a great, engaging book, though it’s sometimes weighed down by Eagleton’s heavyhanded marxism, particularly towards the end.