In this witty, accessible book, Terry Eagleton argues that the art of reading poetry is as much in danger of becoming extinct as thatching or clog dancing. On the whole, students today are not taught how to be sensitive to language - how to read a poem with... [More...]

The leading literary theorist dissected in interview.

This lively new book by renowned critic Terry Eagleton provides a novel account of Ireland's neglected national intellectuals. This extraordinary group, a sort of Irish version of Bloomsbury, included such figures as Oscar Wilde's father William, Charles... [More...]

This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - "St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, " and "Gods Locusts." The first two originally toured Ireland respectively in productions by Field Day of Derry and... [More...]

Terry Eagleton's work has had a powerful influence in debates about the politics of literature and culture. This book reflects the breadth of his interests. It offers a view of his career to date, raising a number of central issues in literature, culture... [More...]

In this collection of more than a decade of bracing criticism, Eagleton comes face to face with Guardian Stanley Fish, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, Edward Said, and David Beckham. All are subjected to his pugnacious wit, scathing critical pen, and... [More...]

In the modern world, ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept.