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In 1976, Terry Eagleton published 'Marxism and Literary Criticism', a slim but seismic volume that reoriented Anglophone literary studies by insisting that form, genre, and narrative technique could not be divorced from ideology, class struggle, or the material conditions of publishing. Unlike many theorists who retreated into abstraction, he wrote with palpable contempt for academic obscurantism—mocking Derrida’s 'jargon' while quoting Blake and Dickens in the same breath. His 1983 'Literary Theory: An Introduction' sold over 750,000 copies not because it was easy, but because it treated readers as intelligent non-specialists willing to grapple with Hegel, Althusser, and the commodification of the English novel. He once dissected Oscar Wilde’s wit not as mere epigrammatic flair but as a tactical deflection of Victorian moral economy—and then followed it with a blistering critique of how universities turned critical theory into credentialing machinery. His voice remains unmistakable: a working-class Manchester inflection sharpened by Cambridge donnish precision, always suspicious of consensus, never mistaking irony for emancipation.
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