- Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton FBA is a prominent British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual
Born: | 22 February 1943 Comment | How old is Terry Eagleton in 2024? / Age: | 81 years
| Zodiac sign: | Pisces |
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Terry Eagleton facts
- He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University
- Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which has sold over 750,000 copies
- The work elucidated the emerging literary theory of the period
- He has also been a prominent critic of postmodernism, publishing works such as The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
- Formerly the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992–2001) and John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester (2001–2008), Eagleton has held visiting appointments at universities around the world including Cornell, Duke, Iowa, Melbourne, Trinity College in Dublin, and Yale
- Eagleton delivered Yale University's 2008 Terry Lectures and the 2010 Edinburgh Gifford Lecture entitled The God Debate
- He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington Green Unitarian Church, speaking on "The New Atheism and the War on Terror"
- In 2009 he published a book which accompanied his lectures on religion, entitled Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
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