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"If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades."
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Terry EagletonAny attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method — Terry Eagleton
"Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure."
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Terry Eagleton
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Terence Francis Eagleton is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of English Literature at Lancaster University.
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"Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism."
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"Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."
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"All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is pointing towards some object."
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"The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present."
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"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."
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