Acadmic Showdown: Eagleton v Amis


	Acadmic Showdown: Eagleton v Amis

abailart

10-10-2007 3:38 AM

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terry eagleton, martin amis, islam, academia

abailart says:

You want a good verbal fight full of high powered sarcasm, intelligence, iconoclasm? Watch this space. Eagleton is a delight to read - his TLS crit of 'The God Delusion' is brilliant (though obviously our Tel is no proseltyser for God). It's not just clippers who get a bit worked up when it comes to intellectual debate!

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As literary duels go, this one could hardly be more gripping. The grand old
Marxist of letters, Terry Eagleton, has strapped on his notched side-iron
and called out Martin Amis, the fancy gunslinger of the chattering saloons.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2603984.ece">Accusing Amis of Islamophobia for suggesting a clampdown on
Muslims, he attacked the novelist’s late father Kingsley as “a racist,
antisemitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and
liberals”.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2603984.ece">To his
critics he is “that dreadful Terry Eagleton”, as Prince Charles called him </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2603984.ece">His youthful job as an encyclopedia
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Many famous names have felt his critical lash. He dismissed Richard Dawkins’s
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