The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue

Terry Eagleton, Matthew Beaumont

ISBN 10: 1844673405 / ISBN 13: 9781844673407

Edité par Verso, 2009

A propos de cet article

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is bound in black paper spine and boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book is new. xxvi/342 pages. "In "The Task of the Critic," Matthew Beaumont compiles fourteen official interviews conducted with Eagleton since the 1980s, interweaving these with new, original and comprehensive interviews to provide readers with a contemporary frame through which to view his thought. Opening with a preface by Eagleton, the conversations narrate not only his own intellectual development but that of the Left over almost half a century, tying his recent return to religious themes with his intellectual formation on the Catholic Left in the 1960s and to the theological interests of influential thinkers like Zizek and Badiou. This volume will appeal not only to those with a specific interest in Eagleton himself and in the fate of the Left, but also to those interested in the trajectories of Anglo-American literary theory in a digestible, stimulating format.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue
• Éditeur: Verso
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1844673405
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781844673407
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

TERRY EAGLETON is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. His other publications include Walter Benjamin, Literary Theory: An Introduction, The Function of Criticism, Criticism and Ideology, The Illusions of Postmodernism, Figures of Dissent and Ideology: An Introduction. He is also a dramatist, and his plays have been collected in Saint Oscar and Other Plays. He wrote the filmscript for Wittgenstein and the novel Saints and Scholars.