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  • Walter Benjamin

    Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Why Marx Was Right

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    **One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy"Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks."—Dennis O'Brien, Christian Century"[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It’s probably the only book that makes references to Tiger Woods and Mel Gibson along with Charles ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Gatekeeper

    A Memoir

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Oxford professor, best-selling author, preeminent literary critic, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, Terry Eagleton knows all about the claims of competing worlds. One of his earliest roles growing up Catholic in Protestant England was as "the gatekeeper"-the altar boy who at reverend mother's nod literally closed the door on young women taking the veil, separating the sanctity of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ideology

    An Introduction

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Ideology 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 already familiar with the debates around the concept, the celebrated literary theorist Terry Eagleton unravels its many definitions, exploring its tortuous history from the Enlightenment to the present.A ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Read a Poem

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content.Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present day and submits them ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • How to Read Literature

    by Terry Eagleton, Terry ...
    A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasureWhat makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Life

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America

    An Englishman's View of America

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbors "across the pond."Americans 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 admiringly refer to a colleague as “aggressive,” ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Tragedy

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    An exploration of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western cultureIn this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture—from literature and politics to philosophy and theater. Eagleton covers a vast array of thinkers and practitioners, including Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Slavoj Žižek, as well as key figures in theater, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Truth About the Irish

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    "A fine, fast and very funny meditation" from the notable British intellectual ( Washington Post).If you're looking for a field guide to leprechauns, T he Truth About the Irish is not the book for you. But if you can handle a frank and funny look into the minds and hearts of Irish people, you've been touched by that fabled Irish luck.Covering all things Irish from Blarney to Yeats, renowned ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Hope Without Optimism

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In 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 to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires reflection and commitment, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the “superstitious” view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD