Frasi di Terry Eagleton

Terence Francis Eagleton è un critico letterario inglese.

È stato professore di letteratura inglese all'Università di Oxford e all'Università di Manchester. Nel 2008 ha ottenuto una cattedra di letteratura inglese all'Università di Lancaster.

Ha scritto più di quaranta libri, tra cui Literary Theory: An Introduction ; The Ideology of Aesthetic ; The Illusion of Postmodernism .

I suoi libri Ideology: An Introduction e The Function of Criticism sono stati tradotti in italiano con i titoli Ideologia: Storia e Critica di un'Idea Pericolosa e Figure del Dissenso. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Febbraio 1943
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Terry Eagleton: Frasi in inglese

“Deconstruction… insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”

Terry Eagleton

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

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

Terry Eagleton

Introduction: What is Literature?, p. 2
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
Contesto: 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,”

Terry Eagleton

Origine: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 2, p. 67 (See also: Northrop Frye)
Contesto: 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.”

Terry Eagleton

Origine: 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.”

Terry Eagleton

Origine: 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.”

Terry Eagleton

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.”

Terry Eagleton

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

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