Acts of Literature III

Terence Francis Eagleton (born 1943) is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Eagleton has published over forty books and he remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which 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) and After Theory (2003). 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 University of Edinburgh's 2010 Gifford Lecture titled 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". This interview was carried out on a telephone call on June 9th, 2021

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