Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton is a British literary theorist, critic and author who is one of the most influential and widely read literary and cultural critics of the past fifty years. He has held chairs at Oxford, Manchester and Lancaster universities, and has written over fifty books on subjects ranging from literary theory and the meaning of life to the nature of evil and the future of the left. Humour is his characteristically witty and intellectually rigorous exploration of what makes things funny, why humour matters and what comedy reveals about human nature and society. Eagleton brings the same sharp analysis to jokes and laughter that he brings to Shakespeare and Marx, creating a book that is both genuinely funny and seriously thought-provoking. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Humour offers entertaining and intellectually stimulating listening and reading for anyone who enjoys thinking about why we laugh — examined by one of the sharpest and funniest critical minds in the English-speaking world.