Frases de Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton es un crítico literario y de la cultura británico.

✵ 22. febrero 1943
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“Deconstruction… insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”

Frère Jacques: The Politics of Deconstruction, ch. 6, Against the Grain (1984)
1980s

“Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.”

Introduction: What is Literature?, p. 2
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Contexto: Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

“Reading is not a straightforward linear movement,”

Fuente: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 67 (See also: Northrop Frye)
Contexto: Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others.

“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”

Fuente: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 65

“It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.”

Fuente: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 114

“Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of… revolutionary avant-gardism.”

Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism, ch. 9 (1985)
1980s

“There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.”

Fuente: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 100

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