Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others

Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, theBrontes, 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 cont [...]
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Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, theBrontes, 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.