The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue - Softcover

Eagleton, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844673391 ISBN 13: 9781844673391

Publisher: Verso Books, 2009

Synopsis

Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist deeply hostile to the zeitgeist. Over the last forty years his public interventions have enlivened an otherwise bland and conformist culture. His pen, as many colleagues in the academy—including Harold Bloom, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha—have learned, is merciless and unsparing. As a critic Eagleton has not shied away from confronting the high priests of native conformity as highlighted by his coruscating polemic against Martin Amis on the issue of civil liberties and religion. This comprehensive volume of interviews covers both his life and the development of his thought and politics. Lively and insightful, they will appeal not only to those with an interest in Eagleton himself, but to all those interested in the evolution of radical politics, modernism, cultural theory, the history of ideas, sociology, semantic inquiry and the state of Marxist theory.

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About the Author

TERRY EAGLETON is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His other publications include Walter Benjamin, Literary Theory: An Introduction, The Function of Criticism, Criticism and Ideology, The Illusions of Postmodernism, Figures of Dissent and Ideology: An Introduction. He is also a dramatist, and his plays have been collected in Saint Oscar and Other Plays. He wrote the filmscript for Wittgenstein and the novel Saints and Scholars.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844673391
• ISBN 13: 9781844673391
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Beaumont Matthew