Acts of Literature III
An Interview with Terry Eagleton
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Terence Francis Eagleton (born 1943) is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.
Eagleton has published over forty books and he remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which elucidated the emerging literary theory of the period. He has also been a prominent critic of postmodernism, publishing works such as The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) and After Theory (2003).
Formerly the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992–2001) and John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester (2001–2008), Eagleton has held visiting appointments at universities around the world including Cornell, Duke, Iowa, Melbourne, Trinity College in Dublin, and Yale.
Eagleton delivered Yale University's 2008 Terry Lectures and the University of Edinburgh's 2010 Gifford Lecture titled The God Debate. He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington Green Unitarian Church, speaking on "The New Atheism and the War on Terror".
This interview was carried out on a telephone call on June 9th, 2021.
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EAGLETON, Terry. Shakespeare and Society: Critical Studies in Shakespearean Drama. London: Vintage/Ebury, 1967.
EAGLETON, Terry. Exiles and Émigrés: Studies in Modern Literature. London, Chatto & Windus, 1970.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Body as Language: Outline of a New Left Theology. London: Sheed & Ward, 1970.
EAGLETON, Terry. Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1975.
EAGLETON, Terry. Criticism and Ideology: A Study in Marxist Literary Theory. London: Verso, 1976.
EAGLETON, Terry. Walter Benjamin, or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism. London: Verso, 1981.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson. Minnesota: University Of Minnesota Press, 1982.
EAGLETON, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minnesota: University Of Minnesota Press, 1983.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Function of Criticism. London: Verso, 1984.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Significance of Theory. London: Wiley–Blackwell, 1989.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Ideology of the Aesthetic. London: Blackwell Publishers, 1990.
EAGLETON, Terry. Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature. Minnesota: University Of Minnesota Press, 1990.
EAGLETON, Terry. Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso, 2007.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Illusions of Postmodernism. London: Wiley–Blackwell, 1996.
EAGLETON, Terry. Marx. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Idea of Culture. London: Wiley–Blackwell, 2000.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Gatekeeper: A Memoir. London: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002.
EAGLETON, Terry. Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic. London: Wiley–Blackwell, 2002.
EAGLETON, Terry. After Theory. London: Basic Books, 2003.
EAGLETON, Terry. Figures of Dissent: Reviewing Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others. London: Verso, 2003.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Meaning of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
EAGLETON, Terry. How to Read a Poem. London: Wiley–Blackwell, 2007.
EAGLETON, Terry. Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics. London: Wiley–Blackwell, 2008.
EAGLETON, Terry. Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. Yale: Yale University Press, 2009.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue with Matthew Beaumont. London: Verso, 2009.
EAGLETON, Terry. Why Marx Was Right. Yale: Yale University Press, 2011.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Event of Literature. Yale: Yale University Press, 2012.
EAGLETON, Terry. How to Read Literature. Yale: Yale University Press, 2013.
EAGLETON, Terry. Culture and the Death of God. Yale: Yale University Press, 2014.
EAGLETON, Terry. Hope without Optimism. Yale: Yale University Press, 2015.
EAGLETON, Terry. Culture. Yale: Yale University Press, 2016.
EAGLETON, Terry. The Gospels: Terry Eagleton Presents Jesus Christ. London: Audible Studios on Brilliance, 2016.
EAGLETON, Terry. Materialism. Yale: Yale University Press, 2017.
EAGLETON, Terry. Radical Sacrifice. Yale: Yale University Press, 2018.
EAGLETON, Terry. Humour. Yale: Yale University Press, 2019.
EAGLETON, Terry. Tragedy. Yale: Yale University Press, 2020.
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