Terry Eagleton
Literary theorist and critic
Terry Eagleton is an English literary theorist and critic who has written over forty books, including The Meaning of Life.
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British Born 1943 in Salford, United Kingdom
Influenced by Karl Marx
About Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton was born in 1943 in Salford, Manchester. His most widely known book is Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), of which more than 750,000 copies have been sold. He has also criticized postmodernism in The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996) and After Theory (2003). Eagleton held the Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at Oxford from 1992 to 2001, then a professorship at Manchester until 2008. He later became a Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University. He gave Yale's 2008 Terry Lectures and the 2010 Gifford Lecture at Edinburgh, titled The God Debate.