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Terry Eagleton

1943 -

Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Lancaster & as Visiting Prof. at the Nat'l Univ. of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to The Univ. of Notre Dame in the Fall '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Dep't.

He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96).
He delivered Yale's '08 Terry Lectures & gave a Gifford Lecture in 3/10, titled The God Debate.

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  • Cover of: Literary theory: an introduction

    First published in 1983 14 editions in 3 languages — 5 previewable Cover of edition literarytheoryin0000eagl_l4l5 Cover of edition literarytheoryin00eagl_426 Cover of edition literarytheoryin00eagl_536 Cover of edition literarytheoryin00eagl_651
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    First published in 1991 12 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition ideologyintroduc00eagl
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  • Cover of: Myths of power: a Marxist study of the Brontës

    First published in 1975 10 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition mythsofpowermarx0000eagl Cover of edition mythspowerannive00eagl
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  • Cover of: Criticism and ideology: a study in Marxist literary theory

    First published in 1976 9 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition criticismideolog0000eagl
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  • Cover of: Marxism and literary criticism

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  • Cover of: The function of criticism: from the Spectator to post-structuralism

    First published in 1984 6 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Sweet violence: the idea of the tragic

    First published in 2002 6 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition sweetviolenceide00eagl
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  • Cover of: Idea of Culture (Blackwell Manifestos)

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    First published in 2001 5 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition gatekeepermemoir0000eagl
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    First published in 2003 4 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1989 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Shakespeare and Society: critical studies in Shakespearean drama.

    First published in 1967 4 editions in 1 language
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Subjects
History and criticism, History, Criticism, Literature, English literature, Philosophy, Theory, Criticism and interpretation, Irish authors, Literature, history and criticism, Marxist criticism, Communism, Critique, Literature and society, Littérature, Postmodernism, Ethics, Literature, philosophy, Marx, karl, 1818-1883, Philosophie, Political and social views, Capitalism, Civilization, Communism and literature, Culture
Places
England, Ireland, Great Britain, Dublin (Ireland), Oxford, United States, xi fang guo jia
People
Karl Marx (1818-1883), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Emily Brontë (1818-1848), Terry Eagleton (1943-), Brontë family, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Raymond Williams, Anne Brontë (1820-1849), Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Christopher Hitchens, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), James Connolly (1868-1916), James Joyce (1882-1941), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Philip Larkin (1922-1985), Richard Dawkins (1941-), Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), Slavoj Žižek (1949-), Stanley Eugene Fish, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Time
20th century, 19th century, 16th century, 21st century, 18th century, Famine, 1845-1852, History

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