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"Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism."
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Terry EagletonLiterature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates syst — 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."
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Terry Eagleton
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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"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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"Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author."
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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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