Terry Eagleton
British literary theorist and critic
Lived from: 1943 -
Category: Media | Scientists
Born: 22 february 1943
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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.
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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.
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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
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