In the decade following the death in 1988 of Raymond Williams, his former tutor at Cambridge University, Terry Eagleton established himself as the leading Marxist practitioner of literary theory and c...
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In the following review of The Rape of Clarissa, Thurley concludes that the work is “a vigorous and sometimes brilliant book” marred by Eagleton's “dogmatic intensity. ...
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In the following review, Griffiths offers unfavorable assessment of Ideology.
Though generally admiring William Empson's work, Terry Eagleton regretted that “it lacks … almost any...
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In the following review of The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Schusterman praises Eagleton's insight and rhetorical turns, though finds shortcomings in the book's omissions and contradictory...
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In the following review, Wright offers positive assessment of The Ideology of the Aesthetic.
What R. H. Tawney did for religion, Arnold Hauser for art history, Adorno for music, and Raymond Williams f...
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In the following review, Lloyd offers unfavorable evaluation of The Ideology of the Aesthetic, though credits Eagleton's elucidation of the work of other major theorists.
At the time of writing...
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In the following review of Ideology, Henderson offers analysis of Eagleton's philosophical perspective and critical approach to the delineation of ideology. While citing many shortcomings and c...
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In the following review, Soper examines the development of Eagleton's theoretical analysis and socialist perspective in The Ideology of the Aesthetic, drawing attention to the “tensions,...
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In the following review, McGowan offers positive evaluation of Ideology, though notes that some of Eagleton's arguments are undermined by equivocation.
Terry Eagleton has written a remarkable b...
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In the following excerpt, Levenson examines the motivation among literary theorists, including Eagleton, to write fiction and offers discussion of Eagleton's novel Saints and Scholars.
Misleadi...
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In the following review, Hogan offer positive evaluation of Ideology, though cites shortcomings in Eagleton's “idealist epistemology.”
Ideology: An Introduction presents a concept...
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In the following review, Norris offers positive evaluation of Ideology.
This book finds Eagleton returning once again to a topic that has often preoccupied his thinking, from the high Althusserian rig...
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In the following review, Hawkes offers positive assessment of Literary Theory.
As much goad as guide, Terry Eagleton's spirited introduction to literary theory [Literary Theory] has the sharp b...
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In the following review, Craig offers positive evaluation of Heathcliff and the Great Hunger.
Terry Eagleton's cast of mind is erudite and ingenious, and his ingenuity is nowhere more in eviden...
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In the following review, Morgan offers unfavorable assessment of Heathcliff and the Great Hunger.
Terry Eagleton is a professor of English at Oxford; Roy Foster the professor of Irish history there. L...
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In the following review, Donoghue provides summary and tempered analysis of Heathcliff and the Great Hunger.
“The British don't believe Ireland is real; they just drop their fantasies he...
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In the following review, Daly offers positive assessment of Heathcliff and the Great Hunger.
In his “Introduction” to The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), Terry Eagleton mentions that h...
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In the following excerpted review, Cooper offers tempered analysis of Ideology, which he contrasts with Leonard Jackson's The Dematerialisation of Karl Marx.
Eagleton and [Leonard] Jackson have...
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In the following review, Trumpener offers positive assessment of Heathcliff and the Great Hunger and comments on the book's critical reception.
Over the last twenty years groundbreaking books b...
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In the following review, Pindar offers unfavorable assessment of The Illusions of Postmodernism.
“Speaking as a hierarchical, essentialistic, teleological, metahistorical, universalist humanist...
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In the following review, Mooers offers positive assessment of The Illusions of Postmodernism.
A grammatically-correct friend explained to me recently that when terms like “Post-Modernism”...
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In the following review, Maddox offers unfavorable assessment of Crazy John and the Bishop.
This combative book [Crazy John and the Bishop] is aimed at unnamed foes. In the small world of Irish Studie...
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In the following review, Davis offers positive evaluation of Literary Theory, though is skeptical of Eagleton's Marxist ideology and devaluation of literature in favor of other mediums of repre...
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In the following excerpted review essay, Kellman offers tempered assessment of Literary Theory, concluding that it should be read with a “blend of enthusiasm and wariness.”
Although it m...
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In the following review, Montrose offers positive assessment of The Function of Criticism, though notes its similarity to his earlier work on Walter Benjamin.
Terry Eagleton's essay [The Functi...
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In the following review, Rissik offers negative assessment of William Shakespeare.
In her slim critical book [Shakespeare], Germaine Greer writes, ‘The public duty of the playwright was to brin...
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In the following excerpted review essay, Howard offers unfavorable assessment of William Shakespeare, which, she concludes, “is a book that overreaches itself.”
The crassly pragmatic pur...
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In the following review of The Ideology of the Aesthetic, Sprinker discusses Eagleton's aesthetic perspective in light of Hegelian philosophy, and finds contradictions in the political aspects ...
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In the following review, Lyas offers positive evaluation of The Ideology of the Aesthetic, though finds fault in its omission of several key philosophers and Eagleton's conclusion.
[The Ideolog...
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Terence (Francis) Eagleton
