Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagleton\'s memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons.
Catherine\'s College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University..
He has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford, and Fellow at St.
He has also written a novel, several plays, and the screenplay for Derek Jarman\'s film Wittgenstein.
About the Author: Terry Eagleton is the author of, among other books, Literary Theory and The Truth About the Irish.
Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.
The Gatekeeper mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political.
He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way.
Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, The Gatekeeper is Terry Eagleton\'s memoirs, his deep-etched portraits of those who influenced him, either by example or by contrast: his father, headmasters, priests, and Cambridge dons
