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Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at Manchester. His books include Literary Theory, After Theory and, most recently, The Meaning of Life.
From the London Review dated 19 June 2003
- George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
- Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
- Orwell: Life and Times by Scott Lucas
“Like D.H. Lawrence, Orwell divides his readership down the middle. In Lawrence’s case, either you feel that he has a depth and intensity which puts every other writer in the shade, or his male supremacism and mystical ravings make you want to throw up. It is not surprising that similar ferocious contentions have surrounded a man who was at once traditionally English and politically revolutionary, rather as there would be unavoidable controversy over an animal which had the rib-cage of a hippo and the snout of a badger.” [ read more . . . ]
Selected bibliography
- Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics (2008)
- The Meaning of Life (2007)
- How to Read a Poem (2006) Buy this book
- Holy Terror (2005)
- The English Novel: An Introduction (2004)
- After Theory (2004) Buy this book
- Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others (2003)
- Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2002)
- The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2002)
- The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
- Literary Theory: An Introduction (revised edition, 1996)
- Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture (1995)
- Ideology: An Introduction (1991)
- The Function of Criticism (1984)
- Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981)
- Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
- The Body as Language (1970)
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In the LRB archive
Eat it · 8 June 2006
- Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier, translated by Jane Marie Todd Buy this book
Running out of Soil · 2 December 2004
- From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker by Paul Murray
Reach-Me-Down Romantic · 19 June 2003
- George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
- Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
- Orwell: Life and Times by Scott Lucas
Kettles boil, classes struggle · 20 February 2003
- A Defence of ‘History and Class Consciousness’: Tailism and the Dialectic by Georg Lukács, translated by Esther Leslie
Maybe he made it up · 6 June 2002
- The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature by Nick Groom
A Spot of Firm Government · 23 August 2001
- God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson
Having one’s Kant and eating it · 19 April 2001
- Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume One edited by Robert Denham
- Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume Two edited by Robert Denham
For the hell of it · 22 February 2001
- In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway
In the Gaudy Supermarket · 13 May 1999
- A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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