"Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language."
Terry Eagleton is a Marxist literary critic and public intellectual currently serving as a Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. He has published over 40 books and is best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction, which has sold three-quarters of a million copies. He has also held academic posts at the University of Oxford, Manchester, Cornell, Melbourne, Trinity College Dublin and Yale.
He is a leading critic of postmodernism. He has argued that cultural theory has devalued objectivity and ethics and robbed people of the language to resist oppression. His most recent book, Modernism: A Literature in Crisis,, charts the history, success and demise of modernist ideas and how modernism came to promote one of the most productive periods since the Renaissance.
"An icon of theoretical rectitude and earthy leftism." — Guardian
