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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-

Contributor:

Beaumont, Matthew, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eagleton, Terry, 1943-.

Eagleton, Terry.

Eagleton, Terry, 1943---Interviews.

Critics--Great Britain--Biography.

Critics.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 342 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2009.

Summary:

A literary theorist, novelist and playwright, Terry Eagleton is also a committed socialist who operates unconstrained by the contemporary Zeitgeist. Over the last forty years his public interventions have enlivened an otherwise bland and conformist culture. His pen, as many colleagues in the academy-including Harold Bloom, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha-have learnt, is merciless and unsparing. As a critic Eagleton has not shied away from confronting the high priests of native conformity, is 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.

Contents:

1 Salford/Cambridge 1

2 New Left/Church 29

3 Individual/Society 65

4 Politics/Aesthetics 101

5 Criticism/Ideology 130

6 Marxism/Feminism 151

7 Theory/Practice 191

8 Oxford/Dublin 219

9 Culture/Civilization 247

10 Death/Love 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781844673407

1844673405

9781844673391

1844673391

OCLC:

286419940