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Playwright,literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, theBrontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer '”Terry Eagleton's achievements are many and his combative intelligencewidely admired and respected. His skill as a reviewer is particularlynotable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer and thetheses of a book, Eagleton, in his inimitable and often wickedly funnystyle, always paints a vivid theoretical and political fresco as thebackground to his engagement with the texts.In thiscollection of more than a decade of such bracing criticism, Eagletoncomes face to face with Stanley Fish, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek,Edward Said, and even David Beckham. All are subjected to hispugnacious wit, scathing critical pen, and brilliant literaryinvestigations.

Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology; The Function of Criticism; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger; Against the Grain; Walter Benjamin; and Criticism and Ideology, all from Verso.