The Gatekeeper : A Memoir

This memoir blends autobiography with moral, political and cultural reflections. Thoughts about god, evil, suffering, death and tragedy are interwoven with comic or moving scenes from Eagleton's life: his bizarre experiences as a young altar server in a convent of enclosed nuns; his precarious career in 1960s Cambridge as one of the few working-class students among a set of public school boys; and his abortive experience of life in a seminary. Eagleton was brought up in Salford in a working-class Catholic family and is now Thomas Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford. His book discloses the more personal, spiritual side of a well-known cultural thinker; mixing the serious with the hilarious, life with ideas, the personal with the political.

Biographies & Memoirs

TERRY EAGLETON

Memoirs

Gardners Books

Hope Without Optimism

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Yale University Press

Myths of power: A Marxist study of the Brontës

This book sets out to interpret the fiction of the Bronte sisters in the light of a Marxist analysis of the historical conditions in which it was produced. Its aim is not merely to relate literary facts to historical facts, but, by close critical examination of the novels, to find in them a significant structure of ideas and values which relates to the Brontes ambiguous situation within the class-system of their society. Its intention then, is to forge close relations between the novels, nineteenth-century ideology, and historical forces, in order to illuminate the novels themselves in a radically new perspective. Among the themes it discussses are the role of the governess, the importance of sexual domination and the significance of the formal qualities of the novels.

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan Press

Across The Pond: An Englishman's View Of America

W.W.Norton&Company

<p>First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.</p>

Marx (The Great Philosophers Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

87p from a Cambridge college library, paperback, usual library markings otherwise very good, appears never used

Marxism and literary criticism

History & Criticism

METHUEN

Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Wiley/Blackwell

<p>Terry Eagleton explains that freedom, for Marx, entailed release from commerciallabour, "a kind of creative superabundance over what is materially essential". Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. Marx's utopia was a place in which labour is increasingly automated, emancipating the wealth of sensuous individualdevelopment so that "savouring a peach [is an aspect] of our self-actualisation as much as building dams".</p>

Marx and freedom (The great philosophers)

Phoenix

The Idea of Culture

Marxism and Literary Criticism

Marxism And Literary Criticism

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