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Terry Eagleton

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British writer, academic and educator

United KingdomWritersBorn 1943 · age 83
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Terence Francis Eagleton is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English Literature at Lancaster University.

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Terry Eagleton
said · 2011
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In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible.

(2011) Literary Theory: An Introduction. p. 147

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Terry Eagleton
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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Preface, p. xi

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Terry Eagleton
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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Chapter 1, p. 6

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1999honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela
1989Deutscher Memorial Prize
Fellow of the British Academy

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United Kingdom
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Born 1943 · age 83
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