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Five Things You Need to Know About... Dr. Terry Eagleton
Dr. Eagleton:
- is one of the best-known literary critics alive today
- is the author of more than twenty books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which has sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide. His latest book is Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series); another, On Evil, will appear in Spring 2010.
- has written, in addition to the books mentioned above, a number of memoirs, novels and plays, including The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2001), Saints and Scholars (1985) and Saint Oscar (1989).
- has a fine tenor singing voice.
- has written on topics as diverse as Catholic theology, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel, aesthetics (Marxist and otherwise), Irish history and culture, the meaning of life, contemporary poetry, tragedy ancient and modern, and, of course, literary theory.
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