Soft Cop, Hard Cop
Seamus Deane, 19 October 1995
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture
by Terry Eagleton.
Verso, 355 pp., £18.95, May 1995,1 85984 932 6 Show More
by Terry Eagleton.
Verso, 355 pp., £18.95, May 1995,
“... Terry Eagleton’s new book, not merely a series of studies in Irish culture but one of the most noteworthy contributions to it of recent times, realigns Irish writing within contemporary debates about cultural politics, adhering to the particularity of the Irish situation without becoming mired in its bitter complexities. There is no master narrative as such, although recurrent themes play a governing role in the eight essays ... ”