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The task of the critic : Terry Eagleton in dialogue / Terry Eagleton and Matthew Beaumont.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2009Description: xxvi, 342 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1844673391
  • 9781844673391
  • 1844673405
  • 9781844673407
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95092 22
LOC classification:
  • PN75.E24 A5 2009
Contents:
Introduction --- Salfird/Cambridge -- New Left /church -- Individual/society -- Politics/aesthetics -- Criticism/ideology -- Marxism/feminism -- Theory/practice -- Oxford/Dublin -- Culture/civilization -- Death/love.
Summary: "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 academyincluding Harold Bloom, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabhahave learnt, 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." -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-332) and index.

Introduction --- Salfird/Cambridge -- New Left /church -- Individual/society -- Politics/aesthetics -- Criticism/ideology -- Marxism/feminism -- Theory/practice -- Oxford/Dublin -- Culture/civilization -- Death/love.

"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 academyincluding Harold Bloom, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabhahave learnt, 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." -- Publisher's description.

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