The Gatekeeper A Memoir

by Eagleton, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780312316136
• ISBN10: 0312316135
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-02
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging,The Gatekeeperis Terry Eagleton's memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way.The Gatekeepermixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.

Author Biography

Terry Eagleton has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford and a Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University.

Table of Contents

Lifers	p. 1
Catholics	p. 30
Thinkers	p. 47
Politicos	p. 76
Losers	p. 103
Dons	p. 124
Aristos	p. 153
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