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The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue by Terry Eagleton
Booksplease Price: £28.70Terry 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... -
Humour by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature... -
Tragedy by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58An exploration of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture-from... -
Culture by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture... -
Materialism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.91A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a... -
The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
Booksplease Price: £14.39This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the... -
The Great Philosophers:Marx by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton... -
Saints and Scholars by Terry Eagleton
Booksplease Price: £14.47In 1916, in a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland, an unlikely collection of fugitives gathers. Ludwig Wittgenstein has run away from Cambridge and English insularity. His traveling... -
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of... -
On Evil Terry Eagleton 9780300171259
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton... -
The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A renowned literary theorist reconsiders previous stances and offers his latest thinking on the nature of literature and literary study In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book,... -
The Gatekeeper: A Memoir by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312316136Author Terry EagletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire... -
Ideology by Terry Eagleton 9780582237162
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £60.33This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more... -
Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton, one of the foremost critics of our generation, has some... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor... -
Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton 9781804294680
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact, and so little understood as a concept, as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both students and for those... -
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.14"This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and... -
Jesus Christ: The Gospels by Terry Eagleton
Booksplease Price: £17.58In this new presentation of the Gospels, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful and provocative argument for Jesus Christ as a social, political and moral radical, a friend of anti-imperialists, outcasts... -
Terry Eagleton by James Smith 9780745636092
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice... -
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton 9780300212334
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.91New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come by How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism?... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780300247640
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.99A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it?... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780300248678
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.45In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece... -
The Truth about the Irish by Terry Eagleton 9780312264031
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312264031Author Terry EagletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher... -
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780816618637
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47The three essays in this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry, Nothern Ireland. Founded in 1980 as a theatre cmpany, Field Day has... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780813937342
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813937342Author Terry EagletonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Virginia... -
Modernism: A Literature in Crisis Terry Eagleton 9780300284379
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16An engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of... -
The English Novel: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton 9781405117067
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £86.72Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780813947280
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947280Author Terry EagletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Virginia... -
The Significance of Theory Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631172710
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date,... -
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631203230
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.61In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or... -
William Shakespeare Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631145547
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespeare's major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time. Through a set of tenaciously... -
Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics by Terry Eagleton 9781405185738
RRP: £84.95Booksplease Price: £76.51TROUBLE WITH STRANGERS 'Written in Eagleton's very readable, clear and witty style, this book may achieve the unthinkable: bridging the gap between academic High Thought and popular philosophy... -
The Idea of Culture Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631219668
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.53Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around... -
Saint Oscar and Other Plays by Terry Eagleton 9780631204534
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £43.92This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and Gods Locusts. The first two originally toured Ireland... -
Terry Eagleton James Smith (University of Queensland) 9780745636108
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice... -
Against the Grain: Selected Essays by Terry Eagleton 9780860918417
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.85These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of... -
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.87One of our most influential literary critics challenges those who too easily dismiss religion and faith Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir... -
Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America by Terry Eagleton 9780393349405
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would...