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The Gatekeeper: A Memoir Hardback - 2002

by Terry Eagleton

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Oxford professor, best-selling author, preeminent literary critic, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, Terry Eagleton knows all about the claims of competing worlds. One of his earliest roles growing up Catholic in Protestant England was as "the gatekeeper"-the altar boy who at reverend mother's nod literally closed the door on young women taking the veil, separating the sanctity of the convent from earthly temptations and family obligations.
Often scathingly funny, frequently tender, and always completely engaging, "The Gatekeeper" is 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. He was a shy, bookish, asthmatic boy keenly aware of social inferiority yet determined to make his intellectual way. "Our aim in life," he writes of his working-class, Irish-immigrant-descended family, "was to have the words 'We Were No Trouble' inscribed on our tombstones." But Eagleton knew trouble was the point of it all. Opening doors sometimes meant rattling the knobs. At both Cambridge and Oxford, he gravitated toward dialectics and mavericks, countering braying effeteness with withering if dogmatic dissections of the class system.
"The Gatekeeper" mixes the soberly serious with the downright hilarious, skewer-sharp satire with unashamed fondness, the personal with the political. Most of it all it reveals a young man learning to reconcile differences and oppositions: a double-edged portrait of the intellectual as a young man.

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  • Title The Gatekeeper: A Memoir
  • Author Terry Eagleton
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition Th
  • Pages 177
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-07
  • ISBN 9780312291228 / 0312291221
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.7 x 0.78 in (21.54 x 14.48 x 1.98 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 20th century, Critics - Great Britain
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002067920
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Terry Eagleton is the author of, among other books, "Literary Theory" and "The Truth About the Irish." He has also written a novel, several plays, and the screenplay for Derek Jarman's film "Wittgenstein." He has been Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford, and Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor of Cultural Theory at Manchester University.

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