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This takes Eagleton’s argument full circle back to his assertion that 19th century English literature, which became an academic subject, abandoned timeless, immortal ideas and embraced what the ...
Feb 22, 2024 · Vol. 46 No. 5 · 7 March 2024. Terry Eagleton begins his recent piece on Hegel with a deprecating anecdote: ‘The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he had once talked a student out of suicide by pointing out to him that the logic of “nothing matters” is very different from that of, for example, “nothing chatters”’ (LRB, 22 ...
- Terry Eagleton
- September 30, 2023
Feb 5, 2014 · 1 Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983), pp. 10–11. Subsequent references in parentheses in the text. 2 Eagleton is probably referring to ‘McCabe affair’ (1981), when Colin McCabe, then a young don at Cambridge was not given tenure after five years on probationary status, which, according to his ...
- Andrew Hadfield
- 2014
Publisher's summary. Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice in modern times, and for a generation of humanities students his writing has been a source of both provocation and enjoyment.
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 ...
Feb 8, 2017 · However, Eagleton does see Criticism and Ideology as a genuine shift from regarding the literary text as ‘“expressive” of an underlying ideology or historical situation’ to one whereby the text is a ‘“production” or transformation of these elements into a quite new configuration’. Following this Marxist trio, Eagleton’s more ...
Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Eagleton and the Catholic Left. 2. From Williams to Althusser: Eagleton's Early Literary Criticism. 3. The Critic as Azdak: Eagleton in the 1980s.
