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Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton FBA〔 (born 22 February 1943)〔 is a prominent British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual.〔Professor John Sitter, Chairman of the English Department at the University of Notre Dame and Editor of ''The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry'', has describes Eagleton as "someone widely regarded as the most influential contemporary literary critic and theorist in the English-speaking world" ()〕〔"Eagleton himself has also replaced Leavis as the best known and most influential academic critic in Britain." Duke Maskell, as cited by Nicholas Wroe ()〕〔"Terry Eagleton is arguably the most influential contemporary British literary critic and theorist." James Smith. Cited in the Introduction to ''Terry Eagleton: A Critical Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers)'' Polity Press, 2008.〕 He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, Professor of Cultural Theory at the National University of Ireland and Distinguished Visiting Professor of English Literature at The University of Notre Dame. Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for ''Literary Theory: An Introduction'' (1983), which has sold over 750,000 copies.〔http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/a-theoretical-blow-for-democracy/160508.article〕 The work elucidated the emerging literary theory of the period. He has also been a prominent critic of postmodernism, publishing works such as ''The Illusions of Postmodernism'' (1996). Formerly the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992–2001) and John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester (2001–2008), Eagleton has held visiting appointments at universities around the world including Cornell, Duke, Iowa, Melbourne, Trinity College in Dublin, and Yale.〔(Departmental web page at Lancaster )〕 Eagleton delivered Yale University's 2008 Terry Lectures and the 2010 Edinburgh Gifford Lecture entitled ''The God Debate''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/giffordexemp/ProfessorTerryEagleton.htm )〕 He gave the 2010 Richard Price Memorial Lecture at Newington Green Unitarian Church, speaking on "The New Atheism and the War on Terror". In 2009 he published a book which accompanied his lectures on religion, entitled ''Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate''. ==Early life== Eagleton was born to Francis Paul Eagleton and his wife, Rosaleen (née Riley).〔"EAGLETON, Prof. Terence Francis" at (''Who's Who 2012'', A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; online edn November 2011; accessed 23 September 2012 )〕 He grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Salford, with roots in County Galway. His mother's side of the family had strong Irish republican sympathies. He served as an altar boy at a local Carmelite convent where he was responsible for escorting novice nuns taking their vows, a role referred to in the title of his memoir ''The Gatekeeper''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terry Eagleton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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