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    The Idea of Culture

    By Terry Eagleton

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    Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateMay 29, 2013
    ISBN9781118724859
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    The Idea of Culture
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    Terry Eagleton

    Terry Eagleton is a literary critic, writer and chair in English literature in Lancaster University's department of English and creative writing. He is the author of Shakespeare and Society amongst many other works.

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