Terry Eagleton: literary and national critic
Over his long career as man of letters, teacher and polemicist, Terry Eagleton has achieved an almost singular distinction: He is a famous literary critic. Eagleton made his name in 1983 with “Literary Theory: An Introduction,” a slender, deceptively accessible book that was for a generation of undergraduates a lifeline of clarity in a roiling sea of baffling Continental theories of post-structuralism and deconstruction. Its aura of bluff common sense was a ruse, of course.
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