{"id":952,"date":"2015-10-15T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=952"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:36:54","slug":"2015-t-s-eliot-memorial-lecture-terry-eagleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/10\/15\/2015-t-s-eliot-memorial-lecture-terry-eagleton\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 T S Eliot Memorial Lecture: Terry Eagleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jointly sponsored by Eliot College, the Centre for Postcolonial Studies and the School of English the T S Eliot Memorial Lecture will take place in <strong>Woolf Lecture Theatre<\/strong> at <strong>6.30pm<\/strong> on <strong>Thursday 22 October 2015<\/strong>. A drinks reception will follow in the Woolf Foyer. All welcome.<\/p>\n<p>For catering purposes please email Meredith Johnson (Eliot College) by 5pm on Tuesday 20 October: <a href=\"mailto:M.L.Johnson@kent.ac.uk\">M.L.Johnson@kent.ac.uk<\/a> (01227 823141)<\/p>\n<p>Terry Eagleton is one of the most prominent literary critics, cultural theorists, and public intellectuals writing today. The range of his contributions from the late 1960s is remarkable: from literary theory, marxist criticism, religious discourse, and cultural critique to Shakespeare, the English Novel, Ireland, and the Br\u00f6ntes. He is the author of numerous books, including\u00a0<em>Exiles and \u00c9migr\u00e9s<\/em>\u00a0(1970),\u00a0<em>Criticism and Ideology<\/em>\u00a0(1976),\u00a0<em>The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson<\/em>\u00a0(1982),\u00a0<em>The Illusions of Postmodernism<\/em>\u00a0(1996),\u00a0<em>Sacred Violence: The Idea of the Tragic<\/em>\u00a0(2002),\u00a0<em>After Theory<\/em>\u00a0(2003),\u00a0<em>Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate\u00a0<\/em>(2009), and\u00a0<em>The Event of Literature<\/em>\u00a0(2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jointly sponsored by Eliot College, the Centre for Postcolonial Studies and the School of English the T S Eliot Memorial Lecture will take place in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/10\/15\/2015-t-s-eliot-memorial-lecture-terry-eagleton\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,143219,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}