More from Terry Eagleton

  1. [Literature] is organised violence committed on ordinary speech.
  2. Chaucer was a class traitor Shakespeare hated the mob Donne sold out a bit later Sidney was a nob.
  3. Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and…
  4. All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the…
  5. Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution wa…
  6. 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…
  7. It is silly to call fat people 'gravitationally challenged', a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of poli…
  8. Ideology is like halitosis - it is what the other fellow has.

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