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Mar 16, 2018 · ‘Terry Eagleton takes on some of the most common objections to Marxism and answers each in turn, in a clear, non-technical and often humorous way.’– London Review of Books Buy it here. Culture. Why should I read this? Culture is an intrinsic part of being human. But ever wondered what ‘culture’ really means?
Terry Eagleton. Terence Francis Eagleton FBA [4] (born 22 February 1943) is an English philosopher, literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. [5][6][7][8] He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An ...
Mar 2, 2014 · Fifty years ago, Terry Eagleton—one of the foremost and polemical cultural critics and literary theorists—was appointed Fellow in English at Jesus College, Cambridge shortly after graduating from the university himself with a First in English. He was the youngest fellow in the history of the college since the eighteenth century, and he hasn’t stopped working at such an accelerated pace.
Oct 27, 2022 · Moreover, Eagleton’s polemics against Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, whose theological illiteracy he decisively attacked in the 2000s, also gained him a popular readership. So did more explicitly political books like Why Marx Was Right (2011), which also became a best seller. This bracing introduction to Karl Marx’s thought ...
Feb 8, 2017 · Eagleton, the man known by students for writing one book, called Literary Theory (1983), is in reality a critic and reviewer of prodigious output, whose books occupy just about every call-number in the humanities library catalogue. Born in Salford, England, Eagleton studied at Cambridge University, where he studied with the Marxist critic ...
Jan 8, 2015 · Eagleton has no idea where he himself got the strange idea of reading books, but recalls that “about the age of eight, I was seized by the idea that I had to read the classics. I didn’t know what the classics were, or whether they were three books or 300, and so dragged my poor mother to a second-hand bookshop in the middle of Manchester, and there was a row of Dickens novels.
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Biography. Professor Terry Eagleton, Chair within the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, began his academic life as a Victorianist, and is still interested in the history and literature of the nineteenth century, as well as in 20th-century literature. His specialities are literary and cultural theory and the ...
