Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton

male, 66 years old
UK Socialist Workers Party member, British, Academic of the University of Manchester, cultural studies, Wadham College, Oxford, postmodernist…Literary Theory An Introduction, Literarycritic, Literary theory
Terry Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943 in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England) is a British literary critic.
Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling

male, deceased (1975)
The Beginning of the Journey, enlightenment, western civilization, communist, Columbia University faculty, Queen…Literarycritic
Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 - November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. Trilling was one of the group known as "The...
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

male, deceased (1784)
buried at Westminster Abbey, shakespeare, Saint, aphorism, Biographer, Essayist…Literarycritic
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (13 December 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of England's best known literary figures : a poet,...
Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

male, deceased (2004)
twentieth-century French philosophy, French philosophy, Rhetoric theorist, Sephardi Jew, deconstruction, Rhetorician…Literarycritic, Literary theory
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous...
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

male, deceased (1940)
cultural critic, Essayist, Literarycritic, From Berlin, German, Western philosophy
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

male, deceased (1980)
French road accident victim, LGBT writer, From France, Pedestrian road accident victim, Literary theorist, gay…Literarycritic, Literary theory, Literary, Photography critic
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and...
Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish

male, 71 years old
anti-foundationalism, anti-foundationalim, anti-foundationalist, post-modernism, University of California, Berkeley, University Of Illinois At Chicago…Literary theory, Literary theorist, Literarycritic
Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is...
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

female, 70 years old
Canadian, Feminist, Governor General's Award winning fiction writer, Governor General's Award winning poet, Authors selected for Canada Reads, literary criticism…Literary critic of English, Literarycritic
Many commend Margaret Atwood for her ability of depicting individual and worldly troubles of universal concern (Study Guide). Over thirty years,...
W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

male, deceased (1973)
Oxford University, From York, gay, Anglican, writer, Playwright…Literarycritic
Wystan Hugh Auden IPA: ;, who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th...
Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

male, 77 years old
novelist, Semiotician, The Name of the Rose, medievalist, semiotics, Literarycritic
Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel "The Name of the...