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Terry Eagleton

Also known as: Eagleton Terry, T. Eagleton

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Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Lancaster & as Visiting Prof. at the Nat'l Univ. of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to The Univ. of Notre Dame in the Fall '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Dep't. He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96). He delivered Yale's '08 Terry Lectures & gave a Gifford Lecture in 3/10, titled The God Debate.

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Crazy John and the Bishop and other essays on Irish culture

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"This innovative collection of essays views Irish culture from the eighteenth-century to the present day, covering a wide range of Irish topics and authors. Bishop Berkeley, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, Francis Hutcheson, Laurence Sterne, Richard Steele, Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, James Stephens, Charles Lever, Austin Clarke, Kate O'Brien and Francis Stuart are among the more familiar writers, but the author also sets out to retrieve a range of neglected Irish writers including William Dunkin, John Toland, Frederick Ryan, 'Father Prout', William McGinn, Shan Bullock, Canon Sheehan and George Birmingham."--Jacket.

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Saint Oscar and other plays

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Terry Eagleton's plays in this the first collection of his work for the theatre - Saint Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts - transgress what he terms 'the jealously patrolled frontiers between "art" and "ideas"'. In spirit they owe at least as much to Oscar Wilde, the Irish Oxfordian socialist and proto-deconstructionist, as, for example in their use of prose and ballad forms, they do to Bertolt Brecht. Saint Oscar, about Oscar Wilde, and The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, based on the life and tragic death of James Connolly, originally toured Ireland respectively in productions by Field Day of Derry and Dubbeljoint of Belfast. God's Locusts, written to commemorate the Great Famine and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, excoriates British officialdom for its callous inhumanity in mismanaging the relief operation.

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Jesus Christ

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A series of meditations on Christ as the image of the invisible God, as a man living in history, and as lord of the universe. Though explicitly Thomistic in their orientation, these meditations are richly Biblical as well. Not only does this book bear the stamp of a deep understanding of the best in scholastic thought and in Biblical research, but it also reflects the mature piety of one of the great spiritual writers of the present age of the Church; because above all else this is a book of meditations which are aimed at moving the minds and hearts.

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