Professor Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. Amongst his notable books are The Body as Language: Outline of a New Left Theology; Marxism and Literary Criticism; Literary Theory: An Introduction; Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism; Ideology: An Introduction; The Gatekeeper: A Memoir; Sweet Violence; and After Theory. On September 27, 2005, Eagleton presented "Tragedy & Terror."
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