Eagleton's

The Eagleton review identifies Eagleton's discipline as "literary study," but goes on to discuss politics and cultural theory as if this is of course what a literary scholar studies.

Book Reviewing 2010

Again, this proposal is all about making academe a more congenial place for the teacher, and again I don't object to it per se, but I do note that neither in O'Connor's nor Burke's post, nor in Eagleton's essay, is there much consideration of the role literature itself plays in literary study.

Literary Study 2009

You'll find out specifically why in the episode, but Eagleton's not her crowd.

Parks and Recreation's Parker Posey on Playing Leslie's Frenemy: "Dreams Do Come True!" 2011

I would really not even have commented on Eagleton's brief essay-review if I hadn't also at about the same time read two very thoughtful and intelligent posts on academic weblogs dealing with the very subject of what's wrong with academic literary study.

Literary Study 2009

Given that both Eagleton and Said played major roles in bringing academic criticism to the dire straits in which it now has trouble maneuvering, it is on the one hand difficult to have much sympathy with Eagleton's own current displeasure.

Literary Study 2009

However, Eagleton's touch is less sure when it comes to the human condition under communism.

Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton – review 2011

Even after several takes of an exchange between Leslie and Lindsay at Eagleton's fancy town hall meeting — Leslie: Nice outfit.

Parks and Recreation's Parker Posey on Playing Leslie's Frenemy: "Dreams Do Come True!" 2011

There is none of the logical precision, winning prose or intellectual ambition displayed most recently in Eagleton's Yale lectures on faith.

Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton – review 2011

At its online site (current issue February 16), vaguely "literary" reviews are offered of Terry Eagleton's After Theory and Colin McCabe's Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy, but neither could be said to concern literature (or in the latter case film) in any meaningful way.

Book Reviewing 2010

It seems that Eagleton's World Cup spirit has made him careless and aggressive – maybe it's scotch?

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