Terry Eagleton
Terence Francis Eagleton (Salford, 22. 2. 1943. – ), britanski književni kritičar i teoretičar, filozof, pisac i javni intelektualac. Rođen je u radničkoj katoličkoj porodici irskog porijekla, izvorno iz Galwayja. Studirao je na koledžima Trinity i Jesus Univerziteta u Cambridgeu gdje mu je jedan od profesora bio i Raymond Williams. Akademsku karijeru je započeo kao predavač na Univerzitetu u Oxfordu odnosno koledžima Wadham (1969–1989), Linacre (1989–1993) i St Catherine's. Godine 2001. prebacio se na Univerzitet u Manchesteru gdje je radio sedam godina, a kasnije je predavao i na Univerzitetu u Lancasteru, Nacionalnom irskom univerzitetu, te Univerzitetu Notre Dame. Kao vandredni predavač radio je i na Cornellu, Dukeu, Iowi, Melbourneu, dublinskom Trinityju i Yaleu. Autor je više od 40 knjiga među kojima su najpoznatije Književna teorija: Uvod (, 1983), Ideologija estetike (, 1990) i Iluzije postmodernizma (, 1996). Eagleton je socijalist i marksist, u više navrata branio je Slavoja Žižeka i pomogao da se njegov rad popularizira u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu.

Opus 

 The New Left Church (1966), Sheed and Ward
 Shakespeare and Society; critical studies in Shakespearean drama (1967), Schocken Books, 
 Exiles And Émigrés: Studies in Modern Literature (1970), Schocken Books, 
 The Body as Language: outline of a new left theology (1970), Sheed and Ward, 
 Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës (1975), Barnes & Noble, 
 Criticism & ideology: a study in Marxist literary theory (1976), Verso, 
 Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976), University of California Press, 
 Walter Benjamin, or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981), Verso, NLB; Schocken Books, 
 The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson (1982), University of Minnesota Press, 
 Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), University of Minnesota Press, 
 The Function of Criticism: from the spectator to post-structuralism (1984), Verso, 
 Saints and Scholars (1987), Verso, 
 Saint Oscar (1989), Field Day, 
 Raymond Williams: Critical Perspectives (ur., 1989), Northeastern University Press, 
 The Significance of Theory (1989), Blackwell, 
 The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990), Blackwell, 
 Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature (1990), University of Minnesota Press, 
 Ideology: An Introduction (1991), Verso, 
 Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script, The Derek Jarman Film (1993), BFI, 
 Literary Theory (1996), University of Minnesota Press, 
 The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), Blackwell, 
 Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: studies in Irish culture (1996), Verso, 
 Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture (1998), University of Notre Dame Press, 
 Marx (1999), Routledge, 
 The Truth about the Irish (1999), St. Martin's Griffin, 
 The Idea of Culture (2000), Blackwell, 
 The Gatekeeper: A Memoir (2002), St. Martin's Press, 
 Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2002), Blackwell, 
 After Theory (2003), Basic Books, 
 Figures of dissent: Reviewing Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others (2003), Verso, 
 The English Novel: An Introduction (2005), Blackwell, 
 Holy Terror (2005), Oxford University Press, 
 The Meaning of Life (2007), Oxford University Press, 
 How to Read a Poem (2007), Blackwell, 
 Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics (2008), Wiley-Blackwell, 
 Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (2009), Yale University Press, 
 On Evil (2010), Yale University Press, 
 Why Marx Was Right (2011), Yale University Press, 
 The Event of Literature (2012), Yale University Press, 
 How to Read Literature (2013), Yale University Press, 
 Culture and the Death of God (2014), Yale University Press, 
 Hope without Optimism (2015), University of Virginia Press,

Literatura

Vanjske veze 

  Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University

Britanski književni kritičari
Britanski pisci
Britanski filozofi
Britanski socijalisti
Akademici
Kritičari postmodernizma