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Terry Eagleton

1943 - Today

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Terence Francis Eagleton (born 22 February 1943) is an English philosopher, literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which has sold over 750,000 copies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terry Eagleton has received more than 975,699 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Terry Eagleton is the 2,342nd most popular writer (up from 2,444th in 2019), the 1,735th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,874th in 2019) and the 187th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 980k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Marxism and literary criticism
Communism and literature, Marxist criticism, Criticism
Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton has some answers in this wonderfully clear analysis. For this Routledge Classics edition the author has written a challenging new introduction which explains the continuing relevance of this work for the twenty-first century.
1976
Literary theory
Literature, Criticism, History and criticism
1983
Myths of power
Criticism and interpretation, History, Literature and society
1975
Ideology
Ideology, History
1991
Criticism and ideology
Criticism, Literature, Theory
1976
The function of criticism
Criticism, History, Social aspects of Criticism
1984

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Terry Eagleton ranks 2,342 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrei Voznesensky, Tullia d'Aragona, Terence McKenna, Kathy Reichs, William Peter Blatty, and Nennius. After him are Marius Aventicensis, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Rabia Balkhi, Eugippius, Terry Bisson, and Anton Bernolák.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Terry Eagleton ranks 205. Before him are Rodney Alcala, Mie Hama, Carmen Argenziano, Surayud Chulanont, Nicolae Văcăroiu, and Henry Hill. After him are Tom Holland, Rolf Stommelen, Wilson da Silva Piazza, Charles Savarin, Sirajuddin of Perlis, and Muhammad al-Sadr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Terry Eagleton ranks 1,735 out of 8,785. Before him are Dido (1971), Patrick Head (1946), Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Edward Low (1690), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), and William Cullen (1710). After him are Gordon Ramsay (1966), David Gill (1843), Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640), Steven Runciman (1903), Anthony Quayle (1913), and Margaret Scriven (1912).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Terry Eagleton ranks 187. Before him are Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868), Edward FitzGerald (1809), Donald Adamson (1939), Richard Aldington (1892), Kingsley Amis (1922), and Frederic W. H. Myers (1843). After him are Philip Sidney (1554), Walter Bagehot (1826), William Auld (1924), Leonard Woolf (1880), Taliesin (518), and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806).

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