Frases de Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton é um filósofo e crítico literário britânico identificado com o marxismo.

✵ 22. Fevereiro 1943
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Terry Eagleton: Frases em inglês

“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)
Contexto: 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

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

Fonte: 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

Fonte: 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

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