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Where Eagletons dare.(Terry Eagleton, The Gatekeeper: A Memoir)
Terry Eagleton The Gatekeeper: A Memoir. St. Martin's Press, 128 pages, $21.95
"I can't see" Sir Frank Kermode is quoted as saying on the back cover of The Gatekeeper, "how this book could fail to amuse" In that case I will have to tell him. It can fail because, despite containing many genuinely funny, and some touching, moments, its lack of amiability becomes ultimately distasteful. Terry Eagleton's progress from a poor working-class childhood in the north of England to a chair of English at Oxford is an admirable achievement, but the chip has never been dislodged from his shoulder. As a boy he was gatekeeper to a convent of Carmelite nuns, and the symbol of ...
- Terry Eagleton: The English Novel: An Introduction.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: International Fiction Review Salih, Sabah A. January 1, 2007 700+ words
Terry Eagleton The English Novel: An Introduction Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. 365. $24.95 In 1983, Terry Eagleton gave us Literary Theory: An Introduction. The book quickly became the standard guide to the subject and helped bring...
- Terry Eagleton. Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Salih, Sabah A. September 1, 2004 700+ words
Terry Eagleton. Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and...sterling]. ISBN 1-85984-667-X THE BRITISH GUARDIAN describes Terry Eagleton as "second to none among cultural critics writing in the English...
- Terry Eagleton's Theory.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine Scanlon, Christopher December 1, 2004 700+ words
Terry Eagleton, After Theory Allan Lane, 2003 Postmodern cultural theorists are...critics is getting into the act. In the opening line of After Theory, Terry Eagleton announces the end of the golden age of cultural theory. No one...
- Terry Eagleton. The Gatekeeper: a Memoir.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Salih, Sabah A. April 1, 2003 700+ words
...vii + 178 pages. $24.95. ISBN 0-713-99590-4 TERRY EAGLETON, BEING "a theorist in the deep," to use his own description...phrase of Prince Charles's, where is "that dreadful Terry Eagleton"? Where is Eagleton the man, the father, the husband...
- British Critic Terry Eagleton To Speak on "Faith and Fundamentalism" at Yale.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 24, 2008 700+ words
...PRESSWIRE-24 March 2008-Yale University: British Critic Terry Eagleton To Speak on "Faith and Fundamentalism" at Yale(C)1994...Conn. -- Acclaimed and controversial literary critic Terry Eagleton will deliver a series of lectures at Yale in early April...
- Terry Eagleton. The English Novel: An Introduction.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Dickens Quarterly Rainsford, Dominic June 1, 2006 700+ words
Terry Eagleton. The English Novel: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. x + 365. $24.95. The first thing that is striking...
- A paradigm case of polemical history: Terry Eagleton's 'The Ideology of the...
- Magazine article from: CLIO Lord, Timothy C. June 22, 1993 700+ words
...and the Mirror of Nature, Alisdair Maclntyre's After Virtue, Jean Bethke Elshtain's Public Man, Private Woman, and Terry Eagleton's The ideology of the Aesthetic share many characteristics with the genres previously mentioned; yet they also exhibit...
- An anecdote a day keeps analysis away: gendered relations of power and an...
- Magazine article from: Hecate Greenfield, Cathy Williams, Peter May 1, 1993 700+ words
Terry Eagleton has argued that the burgeoning genre of the |campus' or |academic' novel usually features certain culturally significant family...
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