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Terry Eagleton. Crazy John and the Bishop and Other Essays on Irish Culture. Notre Dame, In. University of Notre Dame Press. 1998. x + 345 pages. $14.95. ISBN 0-268-00832-9.
The brief biography of Terry Eagleton that prefaces one of his essays in a popular anthology of critical theory refers to him as a "Celtic critic," a designation that has probably puzzled some of his generic American admirers and may have led them to see the move as aimed at mystifying or marginalizing his radical commentary. Nevertheless, Eagleton has long been a player on the Irish scene, where he is a controversial presence both on the island itself and among the Irish community at Oxford, even if his major published attentions, both creative and academic, have come rather...