Thirty years ago, Terry Eagleton published what would become one of the best-selling books in the history of criticism. Literary Theory was an introduction to the obscure – and often obscurantist – ...
The British academic Terry Eagleton has the unusual — possibly unique — distinction of having written a bestselling book about late-20th-century literary theory. The book, “Literary Theory: An ...
Terry Eagleton has been a literary luminary in the U.K. and the U.S. since the mid-1960s, best known for his influential work in Marxist literary and cultural theory and criticism, but also as a ...
University of Sheffield: Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by Terry Eagleton – Whatever happened to literary theory?
Terry Eagleton, prominent literary theorist, critic and public intellectual, delivered the 2014 Annual Prokhorov Lecture in Critical Theory on the topic: Whatever happened to literary theory? The ...
Catch up: Prokhorov Lecture by Terry Eagleton – Whatever happened to literary theory?
What, exactly, is literature? In his latest, Eagleton returns to familiar questions about the nature of literature and theory, extending and refining the thinking of his early landmark work, Literary ...
Terry Eagleton was once the bad boy of English studies. His seminal textbook Literary Theory introduced generations of students to what their tutors feared was the mind-rotting influence of the ...
Notable and polarizing English critic Eagleton provides basic instruction on close reading and literary criticism for beginners. He discusses the opening sentences of some famous works and explains ...
Over his long career as man of letters, teacher and polemicist, Terry Eagleton has achieved an almost singular distinction: He is a famous literary critic. Eagleton made his name in 1983 with ...