Terry Eagleton
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Terry Eagleton (born in Salford, England, on February 22, 1943) is a British philosopher.

Eagleton gained a doctoral degree at the age of 21 from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Publications

• Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
• Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
• Saint Oscar (a play about Oscar Wilde)
• Ideology: An Introduction (1991)
• The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001)

External links

• Eagleton's homepage
• A Guardian article on the publication of his memoir

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