Terry Eagleton
Author of Literary Theory: An Introduction
About the Author
Terry Eagleton received a Ph.D from Cambridge University. He is a literary critic and a writer. He has written about 50 books including Shakespeare and Society, Criticism and Ideology, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Literary Theory, The Illusions of Postmodernism, Why Marx Was Right, The Event of show more Literature, and Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America. He wrote a novel entitled Saints and Scholars, several plays including Saint Oscar, and a memoir entitled The Gatekeeper. He is also the chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Terry Eagleton
National parks magazine 5 copies
On the contrary: Terry Eagleton on Slavoj Žižek's The Parallax View: An article from: Artforum International (2006) 1 copy
"Capitalism and Form" 1 copy
Mizah 1 copy
Nationalism, colonialism and literature--nationalism, irony and commitment (A Field Day pamphlet) (1988) 1 copy
'Culture & Barbarism: metaphysics in a time of terrorism' in Commonweal, 136/6, 27 March 2009 1 copy
Œ̄ữł̌ʾ̈ Ư̆̄ı 1 copy
"What is Literature" 1 copy
“The Rise of English” 1 copy
Kyon Sahi The Marx 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 921 copies
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx (1999) — Contributor — 112 copies
Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism (Classical Presences) (2010) — Contributor — 2 copies
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Number 9/10, (Vol. 2, No. 3 and 4) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Eagleton, Terry
- Legal name
- Eagleton, Terence Francis
- Birthdate
- 1943-02-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Dublin, Ireland
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge University (BA | 1964)
Jesus College, Cambridge University (Ph.D | 1969) - Occupations
- professor
literary scholar and critic
cultural theorist
public intellectual
author - Organizations
- Lancaster University
Manchester University
National University of Ireland
Oxford University
Cambridge University - Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (2002)
- Agent
- Georges Borchardt
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An incredibly readable summary of most of the major literary schools with a distinct Marxist bent.
Decent summary of some strands of Marxist thought about literature. The last chapter, which is detailed and primarily about Brecht, is fascinating. Suffers from its length and its refusal to define what Marxist literary criticism *is* - it doesn't talk about anything past the Second World War, leaving a pretty huge gap. Refers often to what Marx/Engels/Lenin/Trotsky thought but doesn't really describe the details much at all. What he does describe leaves their thoughts sounding pretty basic - what I got from it is mostly "they thought literature should expose contradictions in society", but it's hedged with a lot of "but"s that don't really pin it down. This isn't to say it's not interesting or even good, but I don't feel much better informed about Marxist criticism in general, outside of the excellent stuff about Brecht's ideas.… (more)
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I can’t remember anything about the book, it is a reference spaghetti with no real point.