Terry Eagleton

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According to Wikipedia, Terence Francis Eagleton 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, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction , which has sold over 750,000 copies. The work elucidated the emerging literary theory of the 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 and After Theory . 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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Literary Theory: An Introduction. (1984) (2739)
The ideology of the aesthetic (1991) (1538)
Ideology: An Introduction (1992) (1184)
The Idea of Culture (2000) (790)
The illusions of postmodernism (1996) (361)
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature (1988) (276)
Sickness unto death (1997) (270)
Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981) (266)
Why Marx Was Right (2011) (260)
Marxism and literary criticism (1978) (234)
Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2002) (228)
Criticism and ideology : a study in Marxist literary theory (2006) (224)
Against The Grain (1986) (218)
The function of criticism : from the Spectator to post-structuralism (1984) (196)
The Significance Of Theory (1990) (166)
Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës (2005) (163)
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture (1996) (156)
The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson (1983) (146)
Criticism and Ideology (1985) (135)
The Meaning Of Life (2007) (122)
The empire writes back Elias Khoury Gate of the Sun (2006) (96)
How to Read a Poem (2006) (90)
Hope Without Optimism (2015) (86)
Against the Grain: Essays 1975-1985 (1986) (80)
Trouble with strangers : a study of ethics (2009) (77)
Marxism and Deconstruction (1981) (70)
The Subject of Literature (1985) (70)
The meaning of life : a very short introduction (2008) (66)
Culture and the Death of God (2014) (63)
Exiles and émigrés: Studies in modern literature, (1970) (60)
How to Read Literature (2013) (53)
Capitalism , Modernism and Postmodernism (2004) (48)
The Event of Literature (2012) (42)
Crazy John and the Bishop, and Other Essays on Irish Culture (1999) (37)
Raymond Williams : critical perspectives (1989) (36)
Marxist literary theory : a reader (1996) (34)
Identity : The Real Me : Postmodernism and the Question of Identity (1987) (33)
Where Do Postmodernists Come From (1995) (30)
The English Novel (2004) (29)
Aesthetics and Politics in Edmund Burke (1989) (28)
Figures of dissent : critical essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and others (2004) (28)
A Poetics of Postmodernism?@@@The Discourse of Modernism@@@The World, the Text, and the Critic@@@Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) (27)
The truth about the Irish (1999) (26)
The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001) (25)
Ideology, Fiction, Narrative (1979) (24)
Function of Criticism (1984) (23)
The Revolt of the Reader (1982) (22)
Utopia and its Opposites (2000) (22)
The Eagleton Reader (1998) (21)
Theology and the Political: The New Debate, sic v (2005) (20)
Wittgenstein : The Terry Eagleton Script, the Derek Jarman Film (1993) (19)
Marxism's Althusser: Toward a Politics of Literary Theory@@@For Marx@@@Lenin and Philosophy@@@Essays in Self-Criticism@@@Reading Capital@@@Formalism and Marxism@@@Criticism and Ideology@@@A Theory of Literary Production@@@"Literature as an Ideological Form: Some Marxist Hypotheses," (1982) (17)
Two Approaches in the Sociology of Literature (1988) (17)
Reason, faith, & revolution : reflections on the God debate (2009) (17)
What is Fascism ?1 (1976) (16)
The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) (16)
Marx and freedom (1997) (15)
The end of English (1986) (15)
The Contradictions of Postmodernism (1997) (15)
Trouble with strangers (2008) (15)
Brecht and Rhetoric (1985) (15)
The End of Criticism (1982) (15)
Myths of power (1975) (14)
Postcolonialism and ‘postcolonialism’ (1998) (14)
Scholars and Rebels: In Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999) (13)
Defending the Free World (1990) (13)
Radical Sacrifice (2019) (12)
Base and Superstructure in Raymond Williams (2013) (12)
Cultural Politics at the Fin De Siècle : The flight to the real (1995) (11)
Utopias, Past and Present: Why Thomas More Remains Astonishingly Radical (2016) (11)
Saints and scholars (1987) (10)
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna (2013) (10)
Base and Superstructure Revisited (2000) (9)
Fredric Jameson: The Politics of Style (1982) (9)
Ideology, Discourse and the Problems of ‘Post-Marxism’ (2001) (9)
John Bull's other island (2005) (8)
Three Headstones: Recent Books on Walter Benjamin@@@Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption@@@Walter Benjamin, or towards a Revolutionary Criticism@@@Walter Benjamin (1986) (8)
William Hazlitt: An Empiricist Radical (1973) (7)
Marxist Literary Criticism (1977) (7)
Nature and violence: the prefaces of Edward Bond (1984) (7)
The right and the good: Postmodernism and the liberal state (1994) (7)
J.L. Austin and the Book of Jonah (1988) (7)
Thomas Hardy: Nature as Language (1971) (6)
Form, Ideology and ‘the Secret Agent’ (1978) (6)
The Critic as Clown (1988) (6)
Christopher Williams (ed.), Realism and the Cinema (1980) (5)
Class, Power and Charlotte Brontë (1972) (5)
Literary sociology and practical criticism (1977) (5)
Lacan's Antigone (2010) (5)
Shakespeare and Society: Critical Studies in Shakespearean Drama (1967) (5)
Homo loquax: Talking bodies (2006) (4)
Literature and politics now (1978) (4)
Marxism, Structuralism, and Post-Structuralism@@@In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1985) (4)
Nature and the Fall in Hopkins: A Reading of ‘God's Grandeur’ (1973) (4)
Sentiment and Sensibility (2009) (4)
Reason, Faith, and Revolution (2017) (4)
Saint Oscar and other plays (1989) (4)
Language and Reality in ‘Twelfth Night’ (1967) (4)
Oscar and George (1994) (3)
The Older Americans Act: how will it work? (1973) (3)
The New Left Church (1966) (3)
The Enemy Within (1991) (3)
Macherey and Marxist Literary Theory (1982) (3)
Ideas from France : The Legacy of French Theory (1985) (3)
Pierre Macherey and the Theory of Literary Production (2011) (3)
Eliot and a Common Culture (1970) (3)
Lenin in the Postmodern Age (2007) (3)
On telling the truth (2006) (3)
A beautiful and elusive tale McEwan Waterfield Atonement (2001) (3)
A postmodern punch (1994) (3)
Cork and the Carnivalesque: Francis Sylvester Mahony (Fr. Prout) (1996) (3)
From Burke to Beckett ascendancy, tradition and betrayal in literary history . By W.J. McCormack. Pp ix, 470. Cork: Cork University Press. 1994. IR£18 paperback. (1996) (3)
Changing the Question (2003) (3)
God and Evil: In the Theology of St Thomas Aquinas (2010) (3)
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle (2019) (3)
The crisis of contemporary culture : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 27 November 1992 (1993) (3)
Comrades and Colons (2008) (3)
Long TIme, No See by Dermot Healy (2011) (2)
On the Theory of Ideology – Althusser's Politics (2014) (2)
A slow redemption JM Coetzee Slow Man (2005) (2)
Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning & Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa."@@@The Rape of Clarissa. (1984) (2)
Marx, Freud and Morality (1977) (2)
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 by D.J. Taylor (2016) (2)
The Radicalism of William Thompson (2000) (2)
Edward Said, Cultural Politics, and Critical Theory (an Interview) (2005) (2)
POP PASSION PLAY (1964) (2)
Emily Brontë and the Great Hunger (1992) (2)
How to Change the World:: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm (2011) (2)
An epic political novel about Tiananmen Square Ma Jian Flora Drew (2008) (2)
The Keen Delight: The Christian Poet in the Modern World (1975) (2)
Self-realization, ethics, and socialism (1999) (2)
Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Alexander Larman (2014) (2)
Ibsen and the Nightmare of History (2008) (2)
Fictions of the Real (2009) (1)
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien (2015) (1)
Bernard Shaw. Practical Politics: Twentieth-Century Views on Politics and Economics (1979) (1)
The author as producer (2003) (1)
Looking at an Election (1964) (1)
God, the Universe, Art, and Communism (2001) (1)
When Will Christ Come Again? (2021) (1)
For Pat Hanrahan (2002) (1)
On the Verge of Politics: Border Tactics for Eighteenth-Century English Studies@@@The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson@@@Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa"@@@Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England (1984) (1)
The talking cure Salley Vickers The Other Side Of You (2006) (1)
Faith and Revolution (1971) (1)
The torn halves (1998) (1)
Marxists and Christians: Answers for Brian Wicker (1975) (1)
A doctor's memoir of life in Jerusalem Emma Williams It' (2006) (1)
Wittgenstein...The Musical (2000) (1)
‘Sylvia's Lovers’ and Legality (1976) (1)
A tale of radium, love, and death The Story of Blanche and Marie Per Olov Enquist 2006 Harvill Secker (2006) (1)
England's Disgrace?: J.S. Mill and the Irish Question (review) (2003) (1)
Theory, History and Ireland (1995) (1)
Review of Field Work (1997) (1)
A Review Essay: Walter Benjamin in Recent Critical Perspective (1986) (1)
Introduction: Tragedy And Hope (2008) (1)
Discourse and discos (1994) (1)
The politics of the image (2012) (1)
International books of the year--and the millennium (1999) (1)
Is Theory what other people think (1999) (1)
Literary Criticism and the Structures of History: Eric Auerbach and Leo Spitzer@@@Interrelations of Literature (1984) (1)
The Green Road by Anne Enright (2015) (1)
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski (2017) (1)
Form and content (2003) (1)
History and Myth in Yeats's ‘Easter 1916’ (1971) (1)
Bodies, Artworks, and Use Values (2014) (1)
A dark dystopian tale J Howard Jacobson. Jonathan Cape, 2014. Pp 336. £18·99.ISBN 0224102052 (2014) (1)
Flesh and Spirit in Thomas Hardy (2004) (1)
Tragedy and Revolution (2005) (0)
3. A Short History of Rhetoric (2017) (0)
Ideology and Enlightenment (2014) (0)
The Language of Renewal (1965) (0)
Editor's Note (1997) (0)
Remembering Jacques Derrida (2006) (0)
Reviews 111 (2006) (0)
A Possible Life, Sebastian Faulks. Hutchinson/Random House (2012), Pp 304. £18·99., ISBN: 0091936802 (2013) (0)
Introduction: An Approach to New Historicism and Its Possibilities in Anne Tyler's Fiction (0)
Literary healing (2008) (0)
3. The eclipse of meaning (2008) (0)
Scandal, subversion, and pioneering surgery Rachel Holmes (2002) (0)
Review (2001) (0)
Towards a Critique of Political Fiction (1980) (0)
CLIFFORD GEERTZ Ideology as a Cultural System (2014) (0)
Hearing the heartbeat of words Dannie Abse Speak, Old Pa (2013) (0)
The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian Levack (2013) (0)
Base e superestructura en Raymond Williams (2018) (0)
Ideology and Utopia (1997) (0)
The Ballad of Marxist Criticism (to the tune of "Say Something Stupid Like I Love You") (1997) (0)
Irony and the Eucharist (2002) (0)
Review: Against the Grain@@@Against the Grain: Essays, 1975-1985 (1989) (0)
MR LOVE AND JUSTICE (2010) (0)
Book A poignant memoir of grief and hope (2007) (0)
Spinoza and the Death of Desire (2009) (0)
Strategies of Containment in Recall Notices (1998) (0)
A Homage to William Hazlitt (2022) (0)
Is Marxism a Theodicy (2015) (0)
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry (2011) (0)
Review: The New Historicism and other Old-Fashioned Topics (1993) (0)
Directions : pointers for the post-conciliar Church (1968) (0)
George Moore by Adrian Frazier (2000) (0)
(PDF) Friendship: Exploring Its Implications For The Church In Postmodernity (Ecclesiological Investigatio (PDF) Arabic In The Fray Language Ideology And Cultural Politics (PDF) Mechanical Behaviour Of Engineering Materials Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, And (2016) (0)
Doctor Glas, Hjalmar Söderberg. The Harvill Press, London (2002), Pp 128. £10·00., ISBN: 1 843 43009 6 (2002) (0)
Let's go through it one more time (1997) (0)
Review. The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism: Althusser and his Influence. Benton, Ted (1985) (0)
ROLAND BARTHES Myth Today (2014) (0)
Doctor Glas: haunting reflections Hjalmar Söderberg (2002) (0)
Anders Sparrman—masterful tale of a scientific vagabond Per Wästberg (2010) (0)
A radical theology of ―resurrection‖ lies at the heart of this cogent, funny and stimulating book: the resurrection of socialist ethics and politics (0)
The Bourgeois Theorist@@@Literary Theory: An Introduction (1984) (0)
After the Revolution: Eagleton on Aesthetics@@@The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1991) (0)
The Task of the Cultural Critic (1983) (0)
Books Received (1949) (0)
The Decline of the Critic (2007) (0)
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey (2012) (0)
Judging Shaw by Fintan O'Toole (2018) (0)
The Politics of Barbarism (2015) (0)
Absolute forgiveness (2011) (0)
Terry Eagleton : in conversation with Jan Piechowicz (1980) (0)
Review: Politics and Value in English Studies (1995) (0)
Book Review:Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno Eugene Lunn (1984) (0)
The writer and commitment (2003) (0)
4. Is life what you make it (2008) (0)
A poignant memoir of grief and hope Dannie Abse The Pres (2007) (0)
Kant and the Moral Law (2009) (0)
The Literary Labyrinth (1984) (0)
Ideology and dramatic form in the plays of Sean O'Casey, 1922-49 (1994) (0)
Macherey and Marxist Literary Theory in Marx and Marxism. (1982) (0)
Book Reviews (1992) (0)
Vulgar, vain and venal (1993) (0)
“If you do love, you’ll certainly be killed”:: A Conversation (2015) (0)
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth by Katherine Frank; Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Siân Rees (2011) (0)
Tragedy and Liberalism (2018) (0)
The Death of Rhetoric (2012) (0)
PerspectivesThe fractured selfSebastian Faulks, A Possible Life, Hutchinson/Random House (2012), Pp 304. £18·99., ISBN: 0091936802 (2013) (0)
Theology and the Political (2020) (0)
First-class Fellow-travelling: The Poetry of W.H. Auden (1976) (0)
Law and Desire in Measure for Measure (2009) (0)
Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland by Hal Gladfelder (2012) (0)
The New Left Church@@@Elections in the Church (1967) (0)
Introduction: The View from Judgment Day (2008) (0)
Critical Revolutionaries (2022) (0)
Levinas, Derrida and Badiou (2009) (0)
LoUIS ALTHUSSER Selected Texts (2014) (0)
On Evil (2017) (0)
Thomas Aquinas by Denys Turner (2013) (0)
Scheming the Political Landscape: A New Communist Domain (2022) (0)
Shakespeare, Politics and the State@@@Dangerous Matter: English Drama and Politics in 1623/24@@@The Play of Truth and State: Historical Drama from Shakespeare to Brecht@@@Power on Display: The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres@@@That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a Critical Process@@@William Shakespe (1989) (0)
A practice of reform Helen Dunmore House of Orphans (2006) (0)
Review: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory, Freud and Fiction (1992) (0)
Review. One-dimensional Marxism: Althusser and the Politics of Culture. Clarke, Simon et al. (1981) (0)
Death, Evil and Non-being (2009) (0)
The Banality of Goodness (2009) (0)
Books Received (1992) (0)
Marxism and Literary Criticism Marxism and Literary Criticism (2006) (0)
Priesthood and Paradox (1996) (0)
The Marxist heritage (2014) (0)
Review. Modern French Marxism. Kelly, Michael (1984) (0)
A far cry from Red Megaphones (1999) (0)
Review. An Introduction. Evans, Mary, Lucien Goldmann (1982) (0)
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England by Elizabeth Foyster (2016) (0)
70 th Marx Memorial Lecture (2003) (0)
The Limits of Liberalism (1967) (0)
2. The problem of meaning (2008) (0)
Done Your Third Haiku Yet (1999) (0)
The Structure of Charlotte Brontë’s Fiction (2005) (0)
Senator cites peril in building hopes, then not funding. (1970) (0)
1. Questions and answers (2008) (0)
The Novel and Revolution (review) (2011) (0)
Sujetos y verdades (2001) (0)
JOHN FRow Marxism and Literary History (2014) (0)
BOOK REVIEW: Bruce L. Kinzer.ENGLAND'S DISGRACE: J. S. MILL AND THE IRISH QUESTION. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. (2002) (0)
3. What is Literature? (2) (2017) (0)
JURGEN HABERMAs Ideology (2014) (0)
The god that failed (2019) (0)
A future for socialism? [Presented at a public seminar in the Dept. of English, University of Melbourne, September 2000.] (2000) (0)
Francis Hutcheson and David Hume (2009) (0)
The Institution of Literature 250 Years of English Studies and Cultural Transfer (2012) (0)
The Nature of Evil (2016) (0)
Interview: Terry Eagleton (1982) (0)
Bourgeois Cultural Ideology (1984) (0)
Far Foreign Field Days (1989) (0)
Criicism and Politics: A Rejoinder (1972) (0)
The Gospel and Social Justice (2021) (0)
To my daughter and to my sons (2013) (0)
2. Scoffers and Mockers (2019) (0)
Hopeful scatterings Christopher Reid A Scattering (2010) (0)
4. Humour and History (2019) (0)
Down with headbangers (2002) (0)
Shakespeare in History (1988) (0)
The Body as Language (2014) (0)
The Uses of the Frankfurt School: New Stories on the Left@@@The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project@@@The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1991) (0)
Christianity in the Asian Revolution@@@The New Left Church (1971) (0)
Marxism and Irish Culture (1999) (0)
Literature and history (1985) (0)
What Is Literature (2017) (0)
Edmund Burke and Adam Smith (2009) (0)
Priesthood and Paternalism1 (1965) (0)
Book Review:Reading Althusser: An Essay on Structural Marxism Steven G. Smith (1986) (0)
My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall by John Major (2012) (0)
Excerpt from Sweet Violence (2020) (0)
John Fekete, The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977, £7.95). Pp. xxviii, 300. (1979) (0)
The Presence, Dannie Abse. Hutchinson (2007), Pp 288. £15·99, ISBN: 0-091-79633-4 (2007) (0)
The mirror and the madman (2003) (0)
The fractured self Sebastian Faulks A Possible Life (2013) (0)

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