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March 2, 2014
in Literature, Philosophy, Religion

Terry Eagleton: An Intellectual and Cultural Nomad

March 2, 2014
in Literature, Philosophy, Religion

Fifty years ago, Terry Eagleton—one of the foremost and polemical cultural critics and literary theorists—was appointed Fellow in English at Jesus College, Cambridge shortly after graduating from the university himself with a First in English. He was the youngest fellow in the history of the college since the eighteenth century,

May 17, 2012
in Literature, Philosophy

A True Literary Event: Terry Eagleton on Literature

May 17, 2012
in Literature, Philosophy

For Terry Eagleton, writing is “exploratory.” “The act of writing is both a great delight to me in itself,” he explained in a recent interview on London’s Yale Books Blog, but it “also is constitutive of my thought.” As the author of more than forty books, which span the fields