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
Topics: Reading
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
—Terry Eagleton
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
Topics: Politics
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
Topics: Books, Literature
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