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Across the Pond: An Englishman´s View of America
Terry Eagleton
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Description for Across the Pond: An Englishman´s View of America
Paperback. An irreverent trip through American culture by a critic who "cracks jokes as easily as one would crack walnut shells" (Washington Post). Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 164.
Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as aggressive, use superlatives to describe everything from one's pet dog to one's rock collection, or speak frequently of being empowered. Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children's school grades with bumper stickers announcing My Child Made the Honor Roll ? Why don't we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, ... Read more
Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as aggressive, use superlatives to describe everything from one's pet dog to one's rock collection, or speak frequently of being empowered. Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children's school grades with bumper stickers announcing My Child Made the Honor Roll ? Why don't we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
168g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393349405
SKU
V9780393349405
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About Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton was born in Manchester, England. The author of more than forty books, including the seminal Literary Theory: An Introduction, he has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Manchester. He resides in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and children.
Reviews for Across the Pond: An Englishman´s View of America
Incisive and honest... Eagleton's contribution to the persistent subgenre of Toquevillian analysis: the European curmudgeon's critical, ultimately appreciative and, in Eagleton's case, loving guide to the wacky Yanks and their nation.
Michael Washburn - Boston Globe [Eagleton is] clearly a writer who enjoys being a provocateur: there's something to argue with on pretty much every page of ... Read more
Michael Washburn - Boston Globe [Eagleton is] clearly a writer who enjoys being a provocateur: there's something to argue with on pretty much every page of ... Read more