Leavis’s meticulously autocratic practical criticism, and left-wing, liberationist Catholicism’. Writing about the ‘contradictions’ of Eagleton, Roger Kimball traces the origins of his criticism, arguing that it is ‘a compound of Williams’s socialist organicism, F. Eagleton is now Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester. in 1968.After working as a Fellow at Cambridge, Eagleton moved to Wadham College, Oxford in 1969, where he was a Fellow and poetry tutor, becoming Lecturer in Critical Theory in 1989, and Thomas Wharton Professor of English in 1992. Eagleton received his BA in 1964 and his Ph.D. Born in Salford, England, Eagleton studied at Cambridge University, where he studied with the Marxist critic Raymond Williams. Eagleton, the man known by students for writing one book, called Literary Theory (1983), is in reality a critic and reviewer of prodigious output, whose books occupy just about every call-number in the humanities library catalogue. Writing about the impossibility of filming philosophy, Eagleton suggests a dialectical solution: find a scriptwriter interested in ideas (Eagleton) and a director with visual imagination (Derek Jarmen) the resulting unhappy consciousness soon resolves itself with an outstanding film about Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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