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Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton’s Ideology: An Introduction has been reissued with a new preface.

Selected bibliography

  • The Meaning of Life (2007)
  • How to Read a Poem (2006)  Buy this book
  • Holy Terror (2005)
  • The English Novel: An Introduction (2004)
  • After Theory (2004)  Buy this book
  • Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others (2003)
  • Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2002)
  • The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2002)
  • The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996)
  • Literary Theory: An Introduction (revised edition, 1996)
  • Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture (1995)
  • Ideology: An Introduction (1991)
  • The Function of Criticism (1984)
  • Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981)
  • Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
  • The Body as Language (1970)

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In the LRB archive

Coruscating on Thin Ice · 24 January 2008

subscriber-only content I Contain Multitudes · 21 June 2007

subscriber-only content Have you seen my Dada boss? · 30 November 2006

  • Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewen and Ewen  Buy this book

Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching · 19 October 2006

  • The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

subscriber-only content Eat it · 8 June 2006

  • Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier, translated by Jane Marie Todd  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Making a Break · 9 March 2006

  • Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson

subscriber-only content Lend me a fiver · 23 June 2005

subscriber-only content Spiritual Rock Star · 3 February 2005

  • The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II’s Papacy by John Cornwell  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Running out of Soil · 2 December 2004

  • From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker by Paul Murray

subscriber-only content Living as Little as Possible · 23 September 2004

subscriber-only content Her Father’s Dotter · 22 July 2004

subscriber-only content Anti-Humanism · 5 February 2004

  • D.H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’: Post-Coloniality and the Poetry of the Present by Amit Chaudhuri

Pork Chops and Pineapples · 23 October 2003

  • Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach

Reach-Me-Down Romantic · 19 June 2003

  • George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
  • Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
  • Orwell: Life and Times by Scott Lucas

subscriber-only content Kettles boil, classes struggle · 20 February 2003

  • A Defence of ‘History and Class Consciousness’: Tailism and the Dialectic by Georg Lukács, translated by Esther Leslie

subscriber-only content In the Company of Confreres · 12 December 2002

Nudge-Winking · 19 September 2002

  • The ‘Criterion’: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Interwar Britain by Jason Harding

subscriber-only content Maybe he made it up · 6 June 2002

  • The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature by Nick Groom

subscriber-only content A Good Reason to Murder Your Landlady · 25 April 2002

  • I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-38 edited by John Constable

subscriber-only content Larry kept his mouth shut · 18 October 2001

  • Gallows Speeches from 18th-Century Ireland by James Kelly

11 September · 4 October 2001

A Spot of Firm Government · 23 August 2001

  • God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson

subscriber-only content Having one’s Kant and eating it · 19 April 2001

  • Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume One edited by Robert Denham
  • Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume Two edited by Robert Denham

subscriber-only content For the hell of it · 22 February 2001

  • In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway

The Estate Agent · 2 March 2000

  • The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish

Mothering · 14 October 1999

In the Gaudy Supermarket · 13 May 1999

  • A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Newsreel History · 12 November 1998

  • Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Quis s’accuse, s’excuse · 1 June 2000

  • Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks

 not available in archive Hasped and Hooped and Hirpling · 11 November 1999

 not available in archive Allergic to Depths · 18 March 1999

 not available in archive Good dinners pass away, so do tyrants and toothache · 16 April 1998