Terry Eagleton – Theory, Metatheory and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Terry Eagleton, a British literary critic and theoretician, was born in Salford, England in 1943. At the age of 21 he acquired a PhD degree from literary studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. Since then he has been teaching at prestigious British universities and giving lectures at universities across the globe. He lives in Dublin, Ireland and is the head of the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Apart from Literary Theory, which has been an indispensable textbook at numerous universities, he wrote various other studies, articles and books, of which the most famous ones are The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), The Idea of Culture (2000), Sweet Violence: The Idea of theTragic (2002), After Theory (2003), The English Novel: An Introduction (2004) and Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics (2008). Professor Eagleton was a visiting professor at numerous universities in the world, including the Faculty of Philosophy in Banja Luka in 2005, where he delivered two lectures titled Modern novel and Cultural theory respectively. Today he is considered one of the greatest living theoreticians in Britain.