The Task of the Critic

Terry Eagleton in Dialogue

Terry Eagleton, Matthew Beaumont

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781844673391
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789605211
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Literarische Sammlungen

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 academy-including Harold Bloom, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha-have learned, 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction by Matthew Beaumont
• Chapter One: Salford/Cambridge
• Chapter Two: New Left/Church
• Chapter Three: Individual/Society
• Chapter Four: Politics/Aesthetics
• Chapter Five: Criticism/Ideology
• Chapter Six: Marxism/Feminism
• Chapter Seven: Theory/Practice
• Chapter Eight: Oxford/Dublin
• Chapter Nine: Culture/Civilization
• Chapter Ten: Death/Love
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Works About Terry Eagleton
• Index