Luister en lees nu 45 dagen gratis

Tijdelijke zomeractie: ontdek Storytel nu 45 dagen gratis. De aanbieding loopt t/m 3 augustus. Meer dan 1 miljoen luisterboeken en ebooks in één app.

  • Switch makkelijk tussen luisteren en lezen
  • Elke week honderden nieuwe verhalen
  • Voor ieder een passend abonnement
  • Opzeggen wanneer je maar wilt
Probeer 45 dagen gratis
BE - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Gatekeeper: A Memoir

Taal
Engels
Format
Categorie

Biografieën

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.

© 2024 St. Martin's Press (Ebook): 9781466852440

Publicatiedatum

Ebook: 6 augustus 2024

Anderen genoten ook van...

  1. The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City Scott Peeples
  2. Fringe and Fortune: The Role of Critics in High and Popular Art Wesley Monroe Shrum, Jr.
  3. The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante Sarah Spence
  4. Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams Bram Dijkstra
  5. Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
  6. Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf Sina Queyras
  7. French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture David Carroll
  8. Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology Carrie Noland
  9. Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome James I. Porter
  10. Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art Jonah Siegel
  11. Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain Sam Wetherell
  12. Writing Outside the Nation Azade Seyhan
  13. Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History Timothy Hampton
  14. The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492 Philipp Ther
  15. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation Anton Howes
  16. Jewish Emancipation: A History across Five Centuries David Sorkin
  17. Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature Fredric Jameson
  18. Tragedy Terry Eagleton
  19. The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits: The Botanical Photography of Levon Biss Levon Biss
  20. Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry Jacques Maritain
  21. Roses Claude Antoine Thory
  22. Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity Mark B. Sandberg
  23. We Are Made of Stories: Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection Leslie Umberger
  24. Bruce Nauman Robert Storr
  25. Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution Anne O'Donnell
  26. Lucha Libre: The History of Mexican Wrestling Artes de México México
  27. The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance Ken Druse
  28. The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself James L. Shulman
  29. Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860 Gergely Baics
  30. A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter Andrew Hui
  31. Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality David Scott
  32. Bridges Victoria Charles
  33. Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies Rossi Anastopoulo
  34. Glamour: An Extraordinary History: 85 Years of Women Breaking Boundaries Natasha Pearlman
  35. Apocalypse Camille Flammarion
  36. In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology H. Glenn Penny
  37. Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy K. J. P. Lowe
  38. From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City Nathan Glazer
  39. Rosa Bonheur. An Unconventional Path Vicky Charles
  40. Athens Klaus H. Carl
  41. The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico Christopher S. Wood
  42. Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan Yulia Frumer
  43. Status in Classical Athens Deborah E Kamen
  44. Bravura: Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting Nicola Suthor
  45. The Everyday Life of Memorials Andrew M. Shanken

Maak je keuze:

  • Voor ieder een passend abonnement

  • Kies het aantal uur en accounts dat bij jou past

  • Download verhalen voor offline toegang

  • Kids Mode - een veilige omgeving voor kinderen

Meest gekozen
Zomeractie: geldig t/m 3 augustus

Unlimited

Voor wie onbeperkt wil luisteren en lezen.

€13.99 /30 dagen
  • 1 account

  • Onbeperkte toegang

  • Meer dan 1 miljoen luisterboeken en ebooks

  • Altijd opzegbaar

Probeer 45 dagen gratis

Premium

Voor wie zo nu en dan wil luisteren en lezen.

€9.99 /30 dagen
14 dagen gratis
  • 1 account

  • 30 uur/maand

  • Meer dan 1 miljoen luisterboeken en ebooks

  • Altijd opzegbaar

Probeer 14 dagen gratis

Flex

Voor wie Storytel wil proberen.

€7.99 /30 dagen
7 dagen gratis
  • 1 account

  • 10 uur/30 dagen

  • Spaar ongebruikte uren op tot 50 uur

  • Meer dan 1 miljoen luisterboeken en ebooks

  • Altijd opzegbaar

Probeer 7 dagen gratis

Family

Voor wie verhalen met familie en vrienden wil delen.

Vanaf €18.99 /30 dagen
14 dagen gratis
  • 2-3 accounts

  • Onbeperkte toegang

  • Meer dan 1 miljoen luisterboeken en ebooks

  • Altijd opzegbaar

2 accounts

€18.99 /30 dagen
Probeer 14 dagen gratis