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Article: Terry Eagleton. Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- September 1, 2004
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Terry Eagleton. Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others. London / New York. Verso. 2003. ix + 272 pages. 15/$25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85984-667-X
THE BRITISH GUARDIAN describes Terry Eagleton as "second to none among cultural critics writing in the English language today." If you are a newcomer to this prolific University of Manchester professor of cultural theory, you will need to read no more than an essay or two from this collection of forty one to be persuaded that this is no exaggeration. The scope is vast, the material diverse and timely, the analysis deep and rigorous, the style a cross between Shaw, Wilde, Marx, and ...