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Terry Eagleton
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British writer, academic and educator
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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5 total works indexed
- A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research
· 2016 · cited 23,810x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,456x
- Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys
· 1977 · cited 9,344x
- The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults
· 1993 · cited 7,577x
- Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells
· 2017 · cited 6,870x
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Quotes
- “Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”
- “Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.”
- “Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.”
- “If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”
- “All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.”
- “The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.”
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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 ]
- Notable works
- Literary Theory (1983) The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990) The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
- Notable ideas
- Good/Bad utopianism
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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.