Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. - Terry Eagleton Quotes
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. Terry Eagleton
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

Terry Eagleton

 Ideology
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

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

Terry Eagleton

 
It is silly to call fat people

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged" - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Terry Eagleton

 
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

Terry Eagleton

 Propaganda
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

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

Terry Eagleton

 English Critic
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place . . . - Terry Eagleton Quotes

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place . . .

Terry Eagleton

 
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

Terry Eagleton

 Books And Reading
Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Terry Eagleton

 
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. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

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.

Terry Eagleton

 Literature
It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' -- a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. - Terry Eagleton Quotes

It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' -- a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Terry Eagleton

 Political Correctness
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