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Terry Eagleton

1943 - Today

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Terence Francis Eagleton (born 22 February 1943) is an English 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. The work elucidated the emerging literary theory of the period, as well as arguing that all literary theory is necessarily political. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Terry Eagleton is the 2,183rd most popular writer (up from 2,342nd in 2019), the 1,884th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,736th in 2019) and the 203rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Terry Eagleton ranks 2,183 out of 7,302. Before him are Cesare Zavattini, Asclepiades of Samos, Håkan Nesser, Pierre Lemaitre, George Tabori, and Thorbjørn Egner. After him are Gaston III, Count of Foix, Andrey Kurkov, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Albert Cohen, Ai Qing, and Sébastien Japrisot.

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Among people born in 1943, Terry Eagleton ranks 202. Before him are Bill Duke, Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia, Jack Nance, Charles Savarin, J. T. Walsh, and Horst-Dieter Höttges. After him are Nancy Greene Raine, Randy Newman, Ian Kershaw, Boris Gromov, Soad Hosny, and Lucio Battisti.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Terry Eagleton ranks 1,884 out of 8,785. Before him are William Renshaw (1861), Brian Aldiss (1925), Peter Fraser (1884), Bernard Lee (1908), Lulach (1030), and K. K. Downing (1951). After him are Ernest Jones (1879), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Thomas Heath (1861), Alexander Cunningham (1814), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), and Princess Beatrice of York (1988).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Terry Eagleton ranks 203. Before him are Christopher Isherwood (1904), Marjorie Boulton (1924), Kingsley Amis (1922), Arthur Young (1741), Richard Aldington (1892), and Brian Aldiss (1925). After him are Christina Rossetti (1830), Richard Adams (1920), Martin Amis (1949), Edward Young (1683), John Skelton (1460), and Clive Barker (1952).

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