Terry Eagleton (1943 - ) is a renowned literary theorist and critic who has published more than 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983). Eagleton is a Marxist intellectual with a theory of materialist criticism, and is openly skeptical of postmodernist thought. Eagleton participated in The Kitchen's 1980 panel series on “Television, Society, and Art,” discussing television as a mass, reproducible art form.
