Terry Eagleton

Is a British literary theorist, critic and public intellectual. He is currently a Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. He began his
academic life as a Victorianist, and is still interested in the history and literature of the nineteenth century, as well as in 20th-century literature.
His specialities are literary and cultural theory and the English-language literature and culture of Ireland, on which he has recently completed a
trilogy of works. One reason Eagleton has been so successful as an academic is that he has also acted as gatekeeper to ideas. "In the 70s he took
some incredibly complex stuff from continental Marxists like Althusser, Lacan and Macherey and explained what they were on about," says
Sutherland. In his biggest work Literary Theory: an Introduction (1983) Eagleton gives an exposition of various theoretical approaches to
literature, including: Formalism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Post-structuralism.
 Literature transforms and Literature is a kind of writing
intensifies ordinary language, which, represents an 'organized
deviates systematically from violence committed on ordinary
everyday speech speech'
Has aproches

Is a communication Formalism
Psychoanalysis
way where words
becomes in art What is literature? Structuralism
Post-
structuralism

Literature cannot in fact be 'objectively'

defined. It leaves the definition to how
somebody decides to read - George Can express real or unreal evens
Orwell that are able to connect to our
feelings