14 September 2005
Wednesday 14 September 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
That dreadful Eagleton - that's what the Prince of Wales called the cultural theorist Terry Eagleton. Phillip Dodd interviews the self-confessed Marxist Catholic superstar academic.
Programme Details:
Few, if any, cultural theorists in their life time can claim to have been spotted by the Prince of Wales no less - and called 'That dreadful Eagleton.' Provocative, an intellectual superstar from any early age, with a starred first from Cambridge , Terry Eagleton is not the conventional academic which his 30 years at Oxford University might lead you to believe.
He was just as likely to be dressed in a scruffy donkey jacket selling the socialist worker outside the Supermarkets in Oxford as he was to be taking tutorials in Oxford . And he made his name debunking critical theory whilst at the same time promoting it with An Introduction to Literary Theory which has sold over a million copies to date.
In a special Night Waves interview with Phillip Dodd, Terry Eagleton discusses his two ruling beliefs in Marxism and Catholicism, how they have influenced his life and works, and confesses an abiding belief too in redemptive power of literature. Join Phillip for Night Waves tonight at the usual time of 9.30.
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Holy Terror - by Terry Eagleton is published by Oxford University Press £12.99
