This critic argued that McCarthyism was insufficiently opposed by college students in part because they were too busy close reading poems, in a book in which he skewered the privilege of authorial intent advocated in E.D. Hirsch's Validity in Interpretation.
This critic argued that McCarthyism was insufficiently opposed by college students in part because they were too busy close reading poems, in a book in which he skewered the privilege of authorial intent advocated in E.D. Hirsch's Validity in Interpretation. This critic wrote that Shakespeare was simultaneously a political conservative and a faithful chronicler of sexual desire, in his books William Shakespeare and Shakespeare and Society. This critic wrote a book arguing that (*) Heathcliff was a refugee from the Irish potato famine. In his best-known book, this critic profiles structuralism, New Criticism, psychoanalysis, and other schools of criticism while promoting his own belief that texts cannot be stripped from their political and historical contexts. For 10 points, name this author of the survey text Literary Theory: An Introduction, a contemporary Marxist British critic.
This critic argued that McCarthyism was insufficiently opposed by college students in part because they were too busy close reading poems, in a book in which he skewered the privilege of authorial intent advocated in E.D. Hirsch's Validity in Interpretation.
Terry Eagleton