‘Funny’ - Terry Eagleton on Humour
Tuesday 25 May 2021, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
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Professor Terry Eagleton discusses humour
Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Professor of English Literature within the Department of English and Creative Writing. Professor Eagleton, who has written around fifty books and is himself the subject of at least two monographs, is one of the world’s leading literary critics and, according to The Independent, ‘the man who succeeded F. R. Leavis as Britain's most influential academic critic.’ Prior to his move to Lancaster in 2008 Professor Eagleton was John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester (2001-2008) and before that Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (1992-2001). Professor Eagleton is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the English Association,and has held visiting appointments at such universities as Cornell, Duke, Iowa,Melbourne, Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin, and Yale.
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