Terry Eagleton

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1. Terry Eagleton

   Author of Literary Theory: An Introduction, After Theory, Ideology: An Introduction

2. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

3. Fredric Jameson

   Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Prison-House of Language, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

4. Roland Barthes

   Author of The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text, The Grain of the Voice: Interviews 1962-1980

5. Raymond Williams

   Author of Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Marxism and Literature, Culture and Society: 1780-1950

6. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

7. Slavoj Žižek

   Author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, The puppet and the dwarf : the perverse core of Christianity, On Belief

8. Edward W. Said

   Author of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, Freud and the Non-European

9. Theodor W. Adorno

   Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetic Theory, Prisms

10. Jonathan Culler

    Author of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature

11. Jacques Derrida

    Author of Of Grammatology, Margins of Philosophy, Acts of Literature

12. Mikhail Bakhtin

    Author of The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World

13. M. H. Abrams

    Author of A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition

14. Karl Marx

    Author of Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx Selected Writings In Sociology and Social Philosophy, The Poverty of Philosophy

15. David Harvey

    Author of The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, The Limits to Capital, New Edition

16. Georg Lukács

    Author of History and Class Consciousness, The Theory of the Novel, The Historical Novel

17. Northrop Frye

    Author of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare

18. Erich Auerbach

    Author of Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Dante : Poet of the Secular World

19. Judith Butler

    Author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence, Giving an Account of Oneself

20. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge