Quotes by Eagleton, Terry

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revo >>

It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-ri >>

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other >>

Quotations about Literature

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is >>

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the >>

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the le >>

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.

Eagleton, Terry