Terry Eagleton
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Works
- 233
Top works
- al-Naqd wa-al-mujtamaʻ
- Modernism
- Illusions of Postmodernism
- Marxism and Literary Criticism
- Teorii︠a︡ na literaturata
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 172
- Total plays
- 718
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research
· 2016 · cited 23,493x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,383x
- Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys
· 1977 · cited 9,309x
- The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults
· 1993 · cited 7,571x
- Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells
· 2017 · cited 6,802x
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Key facts
- Born
- Terence Francis Eagleton , ( 1943-02-22 ) 22 February 1943 (age 83) , Salford , England
- Spouses
- Rosemary Galpin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1976 ) Willa Murphy ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1997 )
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge Jesus College, Cambridge
- Academic advisor
- Raymond Williams
- Influences
- Karl Marx F. R. Leavis Raymond Williams Louis Althusser Herbert McCabe
- Discipline
- Literature philosophy
- Sub discipline
- Literary theory
- School or tradition
- Continental philosophy Marxism
- Institutions
- Wadham College, Oxford Linacre College, Oxford St Catherine's College, Oxford University of Manchester Lancaster University
- Doctoral students
- Ken Hirschkop Sally Ledger
- Notable students
- Frank Albers [ nl ]
Key dates
- Born
- 22 February 1943
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Terry
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Salford
- Occupation
- scholar of English
- Educated at
- Trinity College
- Employer
- University of Lancaster
- Political party
- Socialist Workers Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Terence Francis Eagleton FBA (born 22 February 1943) is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English Literature at Lancaster University.
Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which has sold over 750,000 copies. The work elucidated the emerging literary theory of the modern period, as well as arguing that all literary theory is necessarily political. He has also been a prominent critic of postmodernism, publishing works such as The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) and After Theory (2003). He argues that, influenced by postmodernism, cultural theory has wrongly devalued objectivity and ethics. His thinking is influenced by Marxism and Christianity.
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1943 births20th-century English non-fiction writers20th-century English philosophers21st-century English memoirists21st-century English non-fiction writers21st-century English philosophersAcademics of Lancaster UniversityAcademics of the University of ManchesterAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeBritish critics of postmodernismBritish literary theorists